Re: A Proposal to the Members of the Ranma ML


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from Dov Sherman <DS5877@conrad.appstate.edu>
subject Re: A Proposal to the Members of the Ranma ML
date Fri, 01 Dec 1995 01:43:43 -0400 (EDT)
>This proposal might be considered radical by some or possibly all of the
>people here, but I wish to formerly request the creation of a membership
>rule for the Ranma Mailing List, to be sent to each person when they first
>subscribe:

>Any person who posts a chain letter, unsolicited advertising, malicious or
>deliberately cruel messages, or other acts designated by the majority of the
>members of the ML to be unacceptable behavior, shall be, depending on the
>particular circumstances, either stopped from posting to the ML for some
>agreed upon length of time, or, permanentlyexcluded from the ML  

Radical?  Well... actually this is a very normal stage of growth for net
 communties.  A given net community reaches a degree of growth where it
 can no longer support a single focus and someone suggests making rules about
 behavior.  The group then becomes focused only on how to make and enforce
 these rules and the original focus of the group becomes lost.  If you
 want an example, take a look at LambdaMOO today compared to the way it was
 three years ago.  It used to be a fun little hacker's haven and now it's
 just socio-political soapbox land.

Please let's try to avoid going this route.  You can't make rules about
 moral behavior.  It just doesn't work and can only make things worse.
 Let's just try to individually behave maturely like the adults we're supposed
 to be.  If someone doesn't, that's their own business.  Tolerance is
 generally much more effective.

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