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Originally posted by Eugene Kononov:
If all that you can throw in our faces is "I own this site, and I choose to publish what I want", "Get your own site if you don't like it here", "Be nice or we close MD altogether", ....then the war about the MD is over. You signed your own capitulation and you stamped it.
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"I try my best to make *all* my posts nice, even when I feel upset" -- Philippe Maquet
Originally posted by Mapraputa Is:
"To moderate or not to moderate" -- I do not have the answer...
"Thanks to Indian media who has over the period of time swiped out intellectual taste from mass Indian population." - Chetan Parekh
Due to my anti-scientific observations, American audience (including officer personal) is largely happy with censored MD or (even better) no MD at all. No MD - no problem. There are exceptions, of course.
Am I mistaken, or an average Russian would prefer sincerity over "niceness" any time he gets a chance?
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Originally posted by Michael Morris:
Hopefully we will iron this out and have a MD where the posters are both nice and sincere.
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Originally posted by Michael Morris:
I guess we Americans are so used to thinking of free speech as an inherent right that we are oft times unwilling to agressively fight for it in small instances that don't seem to matter in the grand scheme.
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"I'm not back." - Bill Harding, Twister
So the absurdity of your recent posts are because of peyote? That explains a lot. I did read Castaneda and found him interesting... when I was 16. I hope you realize that all of his writings are pure fiction, that there has never been any culture that comes even remotely close to what he writes about.Originally posted by Eugene Kononov:
When faced with the problems, the American indians used the hallucinogenic plants, such as peyotes, to enhance their mental capacity and to find the right way. They believed that your "normal" state of mind is actually abnormal, clouded with bias, disfunctional. Have you ever read the books by Carlos Castaneda? I recommend Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge.
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Originally posted by Thomas Paul:
If I was Paul I would ban you from the site until you apologized.
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Originally posted by Melvin Menezes:
EK: ...This post is meant as an excercise in the speech writing and is a social experiment ...
If I were Paul, I would avenge your post by actually conducting a social experiment - make you a moderator for MD for a few days- and see the results. That way,
--you will be forced to spend time reading everyone's posts.
--You will be forced to spend time editing and deleting insult-filled posts.
--You will be forced to spend time sending private messages and emails to the offenders.
--While doing the above, you won't have enough time left to post something on your own, (and that will hurt the artist within you).
--The best part: you will be forced to practice something that is against your own views - censorship.
--And as if that is not enough, you will have to take the heat from those whose posts you will delete![]()
Once in their (moderator's) shoes, you would see things differently (probably). The ultimate revenge for an intellectual being, isnt't it?
Ok, I'm just kidding. Peace!
[ April 10, 2003: Message edited by: Melvin Menezes ]
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Just wondering, how many unique visitors does Joel have? How many posts does he have on his site each day?Originally posted by Shura Balaganov:
Here's a few suggestions for MD from JoelOnSoftware:
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Originally posted by Paul Wheaton:
I think I'm gonna stick with my plan. On Saturday, Marilyn and I are going to work on the "be nice" essay. Hopefully, by Saturday night, we'll have it uploaded and will lift the ban.
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