Jack wrote:
>
>
> I still see the value of maintaining
> distinctions between various groups and what is and isn't encouraged
on
> them, and in doing something active in order to maintain those
distinctions.
>
> I know that you probably won't agree with me and that, but...
::shrug::
I agree and I think it's a good idea for some people. However, I feel
it should be done in a moderated setting.
> >
> > By the way, I was impressed by the polite factor. Impress me more
by
> > not replying in the future to such posts.
>
> The clueless newbies no longer flow in like a flood at high-tide, so
it's
> generally worth an attempt to be polite. However I think that
announcments
> should be discouraged, and there's still a concensus that sup****ts
that, and
> I still think that concensus (And not universal concensus, or
majority
> rule.) is the best way to run a newsgroup.
>
> I suspect that you don't feel that a newsgroup should be "run" in
*any*
> sense of that word,
True, only because the newsgroup is not moderated.
>but my own feeling is that a newsgroup *requires* a
> degree of social cohesiveness in order to persist, and that shared a
shared
> set of norms, and a coming together to enforce those norms is the
most
> effective way to do this. (And to elaborate something I mentioned
above, I
> feel that concensus is probably the least coercive effective way of
> enforcing those norms [1] that I've seen.) I've seen too may groups
die over
> the years when they lost that cohesion for me to feel otherwise.
I think it's the nature of a newsgroup to die and revive through the
years as frequent contributors come and go. Maybe I'm wrong on this.
> Anyway, alt.gothic.pretentions is the place where the last of the
hardcore,
> flame spraying dinosaurs of alt.gothic came to get away from
fluffy-bunny
> sentiment and set up a free fire zone for incendiary attacks and
napalm
> airdrops with the "pretentions" part serving as a warning that the
group was
> in fact filled with pretentious, clique-ish, mean, petty,
name-calling,
> no-life assholes who were unapologetic about being so, and that
anyone who
> poked their heads in had better have their their asbestos undies on
or
> suffer the concequences, so any "Why can't we all get along?"
comments or
> complaints are thus not apropriate to this group. ;)
Let's be honest here, this newsgroup is slow. Do our beliefs even
matter at this point? Maybe if we had a lot of discussions going on,
one would be trying to maintain order and I'll be the one to spread
chaos. ;)
> <snip>
> > > -Jack-
> > > "Death. It's not just for breakfast anymore."
> > Of course not, Denny's serves it 24 hours a day.
>
> I think that your mistaking "Rat-Part Burgers" for "Death" there, an
easy
> mistake to make.
Ok thanks. But stay away from "the moons over my hammy" breakfast
platter. ;)
Regards...
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