[Vision2020] Too Much Nonsense

[Paul Rumelhart]

With all due respect, that's what the search and filtering features of 
your email client are for.  I, too, wish that there was less 
mud-slinging.  However, with an open forum, you take the good with the 
bad.  That's the price you pay for freedom.

This isn't a crowded room with loud people arguing.  One conversation 
doesn't overwhelm the others if you know where your delete key is.

If you want to engender more comments on a topic, make another post 
about them.  The only way to clean up this list would be to have it be 
moderated.  Then it would turn into a list of agendas and notices with 
the odd post here and there.  That's not what I want.

Paul

roger hayes wrote:

>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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