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Subject: Re: Silent members, Votes and all that..

Author: Enrique Irazoqui

Date: 10:32:14 03/22/98

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On March 22, 1998 at 13:07:54, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On March 21, 1998 at 18:33:15, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>
>>On March 21, 1998 at 16:10:02, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>>It would be good to have a voting system. Maybe this would avoid the
>>>huge number of silly empty content posts we have seen about Fritz5.
>>>
>>>
>>>    Christophe
>> Chris:
>>I don't see how a system of votes can forestall such empty post. Please,
>>explain it and when doing it remember that ostentious brevity is just a
>>superstition of anglosaxon talking people and you are not.
>
>I've seen some nonsense posts in the F5 threads, or some unjustified
>attacks. These posts generated a huge number of replies which, I
>suppose, could have been avoided by a vote. If mister X says a big
>nonsense and most of the readers, once asked, vote against him, I think
>everything has been said.
>
>If I see mister X is wrong and everybody agreed he is wrong, I won't
>feel the need any more to send my own message against him, and I will
>concentrate on more interesting topics. Maybe other people will do the
>same.

You can't argue by voting. If someone says X and voting says he is
wrong, it doesn't mean X is wrong. Or else we would send Giordano Bruno
back to the fire.

Voting in CCC can not be a right-wrong way to decide. It can only be a
barometer of an opinion.

Enrique

>
>    Christophe



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