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RE: Fight back!
Posted by: Tom Iwanski ()
Date: June 24, 2001 05:08PM

<HTML>Hello to John and all the others,

You bring up a good point and, in my opinion, the best defense against flame wars: ignoring dodgy posts (although I\'m not sure what \"dodgy\" means, I get the message). I have been a member of various forums dedicated to topics that interest me. Without exception, there are posters who take advantage of the anonymity provided by the Internet to say things they wouldn\'t dare in person. The forums that thrived had a core of dedicated folks that managed to ignore the baiting and focus on the reason they were there. The forums that collapsed did not have members with that kind of discipline. I think this forum has the the core of dedicated and disciplined individuals needed to thrive.

One exception I would raise with your formula is that some grayed out posters are legit, and I would rather there not be a secret committee that decides the validity of a question. I think the posters who are here to intentionally cause problems as well as those who continually disregard the forum rules are pretty obvious. If we do not engage them, they\'ll get bored and go away.

I welcome any comments,

Regards,

Tom </HTML>

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Subject Written By Posted
Fight back! John Griffiths 06/23/2001 09:41AM
RE: Fight back! MPC 06/23/2001 10:20AM
RE: Fight back! Tim 06/24/2001 03:18AM
RE: Fight back! Ted Agar 06/23/2001 06:05PM
RE: Fight back! Ted, Mike et al John Griffiths 06/23/2001 06:32PM
RE: Fight back! Ted, Mike et al Torlef 06/24/2001 05:25AM
RE: Fight back! Ted, Mike et al Vin 06/24/2001 05:53AM
RE: Dont blame me... MPC 06/24/2001 12:06PM
RE: Fight back! tony 06/24/2001 11:13AM
RE: Fight back! MPC 06/24/2001 11:41AM
RE: Fight back! Frank Blazich 06/24/2001 02:04PM
RE: Fight back! Tom Iwanski 06/24/2001 05:08PM
RE: Fight back! Johannes 06/24/2001 05:15PM
RE: Fight back! kurt 06/25/2001 07:38PM


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