Flames Vs. Thought Police -- [Was: Re: [at-l] The cabin, lobsters, etc.]

[daveh at psknet.com (David Hicks)]

It is common for sites, lists (and usenet groups) to develop/have developed an 
"orthodoxy" with a few thought police to enforce it.

Which leads me to why I love this list.  I'd rather have the extended (or even 
flame) threads where differences are protected than to have the AT-L develop 
thought police.  Most of us here will defend the rights of any member to 
his/her opinion -- albeit there are a few who would head the other way, from 
time to time.

Thank you Ryan!

Thanks group.

To lighten things up a tad, the following has been posted before, by Camo.

I love it.  There are parts of it I wish were not true.  However when compared 
to some sites, lists, and usenet groups....

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Q: How many forum members does it take to change a light bulb?

1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been
changed

14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the
light bulb could have been changed differently

7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs

1 to move it to the Lighting section

2 to argue, then move it to the Electricals section

7 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light
bulbs

5 to flame the spell checkers

3 to correct spelling/grammar flames

6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb" ... another

6 to condemn those 6 as stupid

2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term
is "lamp"

15 know-it-alls who claim they were in the industry, and that "light
bulb" is perfectly correct

19 to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please
take this discussion to a lightbulb forum

11 to defend the posting to this forum saying that we all use light
bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant to this forum

36 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where
to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for
this technique and what brands are faulty

7 to post URL's where one can see examples of different light bulbs

4 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and then post the
corrected URL's

3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are relevant to
this group which makes light bulbs relevant to this group

13 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including
all headers and signatures, just to add "Me too"

5 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they
cannot handle the light bulb controversy

4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago?"

13 to say "do a Google search on light bulbs before posting questions
about light bulbs"

1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and
start it all over again
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nightwalker" <nightwalker.at@gmail.com>
To: "AT MailingList" <at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:40 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] The cabin, lobsters, etc.


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SNIP
It's mostly a great site, but if a 5 to 10
high-density-posting, internet-hiking folks don't like someone, that someone
gets roundly and regularly trashed.
SNIP
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