Author: Tim Mirabile
Date: 11:05:50 07/09/98
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On July 08, 1998 at 19:33:03, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On July 08, 1998 at 17:53:19, Don Prohaska wrote: > >>Not too long ago a certain person claimed that the addresses from ccc were given >>to a commercial entity and that entity then spammed the members of ccc. That >>person was wrong and was told he was wrong and he knew he was wrong. Later he >>gave this "wrong" information several times at rgcc. Now, are you telling me >>that a post like that can linger on? Why should falsehoods be allowed to live >>on? When it is read it can be believed as true. After all, not everyone has the >>time to check out all the messages on ccc. If you must leave falsehoods on ccc, >>I suggest that a note be apended stating that the comments have proven false! >>This BS that everything be permitted is crazy. PERIOD! > >Yes, there are a lot of ugly things that can happen. Perhaps this is how the >post I refer to was viewed. I think we are all being careful about what to delete, and for good reason. It would be a really bad idea to start deleting unpopular opinions just because the majority thinks those opinions are wrong. If someone makes a factual error, he can simply be corrected in a followup post. If someone has an unpopular opinion, someone will surely followup with a counter argument. But if we start to delete unpopular views because we fear that others might beleive them, we are in big trouble.
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