[Vision2020] Too Much Nonsense

[keely emerinemix]

Roger, you make some truly valuable points here.  While we might disagree 
about what constitutes a religious tirade or right wing baiting, it's 
indisputable that much of the content on Vision has degenerated to a point 
that benefits no one.

Any public conversation -- and that's what Vision 2020 is -- will include 
the poorly behaved, the insolent and the dullard simple by virtue of its 
being open to all comers.  I don't think I've been insolent, but I can see 
that I may have contributed to a lessening of overall civility in my recent 
lengthy response to a post on what MSD does wrong.  It might have been 
better to not respond at tall to this particular author, but a response that 
reflects my weariness is a response perhaps better left unsent.

That said, my greater fear for Vision 2020 is that it would pendulate and 
become a sterile, vapid clearinghouse for data and only the most tepid of 
commentary.  That would be a shame, but the alternative has to be something 
better than what we've been getting.

keely

From: roger hayes <rhayes at turbonet.com>
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Too Much Nonsense
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 06:44:54 -0700

Visionaries:

This past weekend I posted a brief note on 2020 that under Jim Risch's
tax plan my taxes would actually go up. Now, only one person responded
to this note, and that was a public official. I am certain that
official had to wade through volumes of personal attacks, name calling,
religious tirades, simple forwards of patriotic tripe, right wing
bating, repetitious arguments that lead no where to find my small
protest of tax reform.
People, and I know you know who your are, you are ruining a valuable
community resource by diluting the content of this list to the point
that no one except those who love this sort of nonsense will want to
read anything posted on vision2020.
Let's demonstrate some responsibility to this community resource. You
don't knock books down on the public library floor; you don't spit on
the floor on the rec center; you don't destroy the plants in the
planters downtown. We need to see vision2020 as one of those sorts of
public resources.
Limit your posts. Consider if your posts will generate valuable, and
hopefully local/regional discourse before sending them. Do not attack
others. Find a different avenue for religious arguments. Do not forward
entire articles, or lists, but rather supply the links that people can
go to if they choose. Do not intentionally take arbitrary stands that
are meant to bait others. Be constructive.

Hope for a change,
Roger Hayes
Moscow

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