Hello Stan!

03 Jan 06 23:10, you wrote to me:

 M>> Please do not make me tighten up the rules, if I do then this echo
 M>> becomes nothing more than "another polarized" politics
echo, where
 M>> those who remain can sing to the choir.

 M>> For now, I want you to tone it down and while I dont verbosely say
 M>> "no personal attacks" in the rules, that does not mean they are
 M>> permitted, especially in the way you did it above. Before you post
 M>> a message to Dan or whoever else (you know who), read it and ask
 M>> yourself if you are being blatent or not.

 M>> Please and Thank You.

 SH> Look, Ross, I understand what you are trying to do - alas, I also
 SH> understand what you are trying to do is impossible with the population
 SH> of Fido these days.  Our numbers here have been slashed with the
 SH> internet taking over electronic communication and with Fido feeds
 SH> becoming harder and harder to find (thanks, by the way).  The ranks of
 SH> smart liberals, surely a small group in the population, have been
 SH> eliminated in Fido.  There are NO smart liberals here or anywhere else
 SH> in these echoes.  I am not telling you something you don't know.

Be that as it may, a certain level of civility must be maintained within this echo.

All I ask is that you and everyone make a better effort to be more civil so
that I can allow you all more latitude than you would get elsewhere.

 SH> But you must understand that some half wit who insinuates that I did
 SH> not matriculate kindergarten or that I am a homosexual leaves himself
 SH> open to intellectual examination - and obliteration.  I have made no
 SH> secret over the years of the fact that I find Ceppa to be the
 SH> stupidest human being I have ever tried to communicate with - and I
 SH> take a certain measure of schadenfreude demonstrating that fact.
 SH> Simply stated, it is occasionally fun to pick the low-hanging fruit.
 SH> I pick from higher in the tree on a daily basis owing to the
 SH> profession I have chosen.  That is work - this is fun.

After a while it becomes circular and then someone gets so mad about a
comment made to them or about them that they blurt out something that:

A. Further makes the echo a sewer

B. Results in someone threatening lawsuit for libel, slander at al, and we
have seen this before.

==
Ross
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