Re: Straw vote for creation of comp.sys.apple2.moderated

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

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Celt,
    This is flawed for several reasons.

It is not something simple to have a new forum created in the big 8.

It is avoiding the problem, not fixing it. It factionizes the community, and
you can only do that so many times before there is no community left.

It assumes that the established membership will go there, and that the new
people will be able to find it.

It's a duplication of forums.

It makes things even slower than we are used to, since now a moderator has to
sign off on every post.

The worst of the trolls will go there too. Trolls do that.

    All in all, please stay here and help us try to fix these problems.
That's the best way.

John
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     Agree. One important purpose of a forum is to permit open discussion of
issues. If anyone wants to see what happens to discussion of issues people
care about in a moderated forum, they should visit the A2-Delphi dead zone.

     Besides, as you observe, response is slow. Plus, it would create one
more division among Apple II users.

     Free speech can be messy; but it is much better than the alternative.
The best way to deal with disagreements is in the open without artificial
restraints.



Rubywand