Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 10:05:44 07/24/99
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On July 24, 1999 at 09:30:25, Roger D Davis wrote: >All of the above are good ideas, and could greatly help the moderators and group >define exactly where the threshold is, and what the charter should contain. The >Merry Xmas is a great one, because it's unambiguously off topic, yet it is hard >to disagree with someone who is wishing others good cheer. The Bobby Fischer >idea is also especially good, since it tends to be repeated over and over ad >nauseum on the newsgroups. The Pamela Anderson one, I assume, is intended to be >of the same caliber as Fernando's post. > >We might also want to put in some concrete examples that would be accepted by >lenient moderation, but ruled out by strict moderation. And we might also want >to put in some examples that would be ruled out even by lenient moderation. > >Of course, it can also be argued that this makes the whole process to complex to >be realistically voted on, and that we ought to just leave it as Fernando's >post, since that is the core of the current controversy. Including two or three >other examples, however, would be useful. I tried to make a whole spectrum of them. Someone can't just say that they'll delete all off-topic posts, without contending with some of those, which happen in practice. The Pamela Anderson example was much worse than Fernando's joke, IMHO. bruce
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