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Thread #84182 Message #1580820
Posted By: The Shambles
11-Oct-05 - 06:14 AM
Thread Name: BS: Opening threads - a debate.
Subject: RE: BS: Opening threads - a debate.
If you want to pick another topic, pick one but there are too many different ones in your last post.
It may be a fact that there many topics in my last post. It is a personal value judgement for you to state that there are TOO many. Too many for what?
Just as all the justifications listed and provided by the Head of the Mudcat Editing Team for their assumptions about another named poster's possible motives - are matters of personal taste and judgement.
We all make these judgements but posting only to express them is not helpful - for all that happens a response in kind. And volunteer fellow posters basing any selective imposed editing action upon these assumptions and personal judgements - whilst trying to maintain to our forum that there is no personal motivation for them - even less helpful.
More importantly - this judgement is not following Max's guidiance that he sees his role as only to facillitate.
From the first post in this thread.
Is this practice - and the current encouragement of the posting of only personal judgements of fellow posters by example – a really desirable example to now on our forum and if it is thought not to be – what (if anything) can be done by posters to our forum - to address it?
This is posted in the hope of a reasoned debate. However, I suspect and fear that - (always assuming that this thread is not first subject to any imposed editing action) - it will not be too long before posts containing only personal judgements will appear in this thread. I will ignore these, not respond in kind and try to debate the issue – hopefully other posters may also.