Re: New poll for cybalist

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 57581
Date: 2008-04-18

--- jouppe <jouppe@...> wrote:

> I very much agree with Marius. Singling out one
> offender with these
> insinuating questions, when there obviously are
> other of the kind
> around, does not solve the problem, rather
> entrenches and legitimises
> a culture of insulting and slanderous conduct.
>
> The moderators could poll among themselves how to
> limit more
> effectively, as a matter of policy, offensive
> discourse and
> pseudoscience on this list, but also how to limit
> the right to
> initiate judgemental polls without a moderational
> procedure.
>
> It could also be helpful for the atmosphere of the
> list to
> translocate, without judgement on its scientific
> value, discussions
> on superfamilies and summary long range comparisons
> to the
> appropriate list altogether.
>
> I tried to make this comment on Cybalist_admin but I
> do not seem to
> have rights to post on that list.
>
> Jouppe
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3"
> <alexandru_mg3@...>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
>
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> > > > I think that a poll defined as:
> > > >
> > > > 1. o Ban Patrick Ryan
> > > > 2. o Limit Patrick Ryan to posting no more
> than
> > > > once a day
> > > > 3. o Leave things in the mess they are now;
> I'm a
> > > > fan of
> > > > professional wrestling and back-alley dog
> fights
> > > >
> > > > Is a shame for this forum.
> > > >
> > > > PLEASE TO STOP IT.
> > > >
> > >
>
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> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Marius
> > > >
> > > Why? Feeling left out?
> > >
> >
> > Well 'everything is possible in this world' is
> what my Captain
> said
> > when I was in the army...
> >
> >
> > But now seriouly, to make a poll ONLY TO MAKE a
> personal attack
> to
> > a specific person ....this is something miserable
> for a forum like
> > this one.
> >
> > I saw so many other miserables things addresed
> by different
> people
> > on this forum : the last ones, even today.
> >
> > BUT to arrive now to identify a 'black sheep',
> in Patrick, an to
> > propose 'to vote' his 'physical removal' from this
> forum, is like
> in
> > the Middle Age where everybody came and where
> happy to raise their
> > hands during different public executions.
> >
> > Please to remove this poll that is really a
> shame -> in relation
> > with everybody here.
> >
> > How to say? is grotesque....this is the right
> word.
> > How you cannot see this?
> >
> > Marius
> >
>
As a fan of professional wrestling and back alley
dog-fighting, I voted to continue on-line street
fighting. But, more importantly, I took the vote as an
expression of someone's sense of humor. I had nothing
to do with the posting but it definitely seems to me
like American humor and perhaps it doesn't translate
well.



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