Posted on 10/27/2003 11:53:33 AM PST by SJackson
Or perhaps there are other ways of dealing with the potential of these sources of noise that don't require censorship and overt control...
Many are under consideration.
That's what makes the net fun
Dude, replace the next to the last word of your above italiciced passage with the word "commune" and your above italicized passage could have been lifted from a 60's Berkeley flyer, IMO.
Are those too posts left to the province only of those who have the time to wade through 2000 posts of a hijacked thread? What if the people who have the time are not the skilled who see the connection between 743 & 1098? Just too bad for the republic?
I don't know tpaine. Sounds more democratic than republican in approach -- but that's just this particular iconoclast's humble opinion.
Nope -- no nuance here.
BTW, I've posted there so you're, you're stirring up new business in the wrong place. Nice to be baited here though.
Sorry, we are out of ponies
Here is a kitten with deathray eyes.
I see no constructive point to any such forum, over any length of time.
Actually, if you look at their posting rules it seems they do have a moderated forum in spite of their free speech claims.
Since you post there too, it must be "your" site as much as mine.
I've posted there so you're, you're stirring up new business in the wrong place.
I'm assuming your cronies are capable of independent thought. Maybe they'd like to join you and me at that "hate" site.
So you're basically telling us that it's possible to keep the whackjobs at bay without actually doing anything to keep them at bay....
But eventually you're going to need some means of enforcement. No way around it. Overt control doesn't have to be a bad thing.
That readily depends upon what level, what undercurrent, you can legitimately see and are willing to confront. Ability to confront often includes employing tools.
Meaningless rhetoric.
A troll button may filter out what needs to be removed at the right time and place.
It might.. But the idiot that filtered out my words of wisdom would suffer the consequences of his/her stupidity.
For simple examples, without the right filter a 3-D presentation is outside your comprehension. With the right noise filters, you can hear a pin drop in a crowded stadium. The use of a filter does not mean you retreat into a cacoon and never reemerge. In the right hand, it is simply a tool. Would deny the skilled access to a tool unusable by the unskilled in the pursuit of, say, egality? Or Would deny the skilled access merely in pursuit of some other goal yet to be specified? Or would deny the skilled access because you fear they might not be skilled enough, IYHO? Or would deny the skilled access because you fear that the tool might fall into the unskilleds' hands?
Rave on..
Here's the trump card on that issue:
"Free Republic is a place for people to discuss our common goals regarding the restoration of our constitutionally limited republican form of government. If people have other agendas for FR, I really wish they would take them elsewhere."
-JR-
But what of those who so imbalance and spam a thread so heavily -- so mob rule it -- that buried at number 743 and 1098 are the most relevant two posts that nobody ever saw? Are those too posts left to the province only of those who have the time to wade through 2000 posts of a hijacked thread? What if the people who have the time are not the skilled who see the connection between 743 & 1098? Just too bad for the republic?
Yep, too bad for the one who used the filter, and can't, or won't, follow the debate..
I don't know tpaine. Sounds more democratic than republican in approach -- but that's just this particular iconoclast's humble opinion. Nope -- no nuance here.
That you "don't know" sums it up nicely. -- Thanks.
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Guess I'm just tired of watching circular firing squads around here, guys. Really, really, REALLY f**king tired of it.
We KNOW who our collective enemies are. Let's use our energies on them, shall we?
Because you are an individual with extraordinary taste.
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