Re: A Proposal to the Members of the Ranma ML
to | ranma@usagi.jrd.dec.com
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from | Dov Sherman <DS5877@conrad.appstate.edu>
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subject | Re: A Proposal to the Members of the Ranma ML
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date | Fri, 01 Dec 1995 01:43:43 -0400 (EDT)
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>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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