djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) (11/13/89)
In article (Andrew C. Plotkin) writes: > Even so, creating the group will not keep out the fundies, skeptics, > or other posters whose sole purpose seems to be bent on detraction > and/or harassment. Is moderation such a dirty word? Great tactic that: Lump together two groups who consider themselves quite fundamentally different. Makes them both angry. I consider the newagers and the "fundies", as you call them, very similar because, by my way of thinking both find solace in irrationality. The fundies put me in with the newagers, because we haven't found Jesus. You put me (I guess I'm one of your "skeptics") in with the fundies because, well, you tell me. The point is that it works. You had me going there for a few seconds. A woderful example comes up again and again: Every few months a certain correspondent posts a message to some group or another saying "Atheism is a religion." He must do it just for spite, because the atheists rail against it for months every time. I know I did. Now to the question at hand: Is "moderation" (as in "moderator") a dirty word? If you want to silence opinions you don't share, it can be a wonderful word, or a nasty one, depending on whether the moderator agrees with you. I really don't see why anybody would favor moderators for these talk groups. The exchange of ideas is what it's all about. If somebody is rude, or if they write things you don't want to read, just ignore them. It's just for fun, right?
ap1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Andrew C. Plotkin) (11/15/89)
> Excerpts from netnews.talk.religion.newage: 13-Nov-89 Re: Moderation > (was Re: Dis.. Dave Jones@megatest.UUCP (1463) > In article (Andrew C. Plotkin) writes: > > Even so, creating the group will not keep out the fundies, skeptics, > > or other posters whose sole purpose seems to be bent on detraction > > and/or harassment. Is moderation such a dirty word? > Great tactic that: Lump together two groups who consider themselves > [....] Disclaimer: I didn't write that. (I don't remember who did.) Please watch your attributions. --Z
davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (11/16/89)
In article <9608@goofy.megatest.UUCP>, djones@megatest.UUCP (Dave Jones) writes: | A woderful example comes up again and again: Every few months a certain | correspondent posts a message to some group or another saying "Atheism is a | religion." He must do it just for spite, because the atheists rail against | it for months every time. I know I did. ??? How could anyone disagree with that? A religion is a (system of) beliefs about the nature of God. I can't see that anyone could possibly deny you the right to call yourself a religion of you choose to do so. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon