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Lighten up folks: A Revisit of the *Challenge*
wrote in message oups.com... Reggie Smithers wrote: I think you are talking to the wrong person. JimH asked the question and Chuck responded with his ideas. -- Reggie ************************************************** ************* If our unmoderated group is going to be a group, it is useful every so often to hash out some understandings (no, not rules) about how the majority of the group prefers to interact. It's a very democratic process, (relax, small "d") :-) These discussions may be unpleasant and they're only semi-topical, but unless there's a censor in place we need to exercise self control and some general sense of the group's expectations is important. Graffiti. We used to have graffiti. Each of us would take a turn walking up to the rec.boats wall and spraying the most outrageous thing we could possible think of, and then stepping back while others contended to outdo the first. No wonder we wound up with a messy wall, no useful messages, two or three "gangs" instead of a group, and a bunch of po'd people covered in paint. The "dock talk" analogy that often surfaces has some merit, but can't be directly applied. How many people pull up to a transient moorage or yacht club dock and intentionally introduce topics of conversation designed to make others angry or upset? How many of us call anybody harsh names when we go boating, particularly total strangers? Give the new atmosphere a few months, especially as spring comes on, and it's my prediction that rec.boats will be busier than ever with on-topic, interesting, boating related threads and posts. It took a long time to put the group into the disrepair where it had been, and we can't expect it to bloom immediately upon voluntarily reducing the amount of "fertilizer" we dumped into the pot. Some good analogies. |
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