On Sun, 18 May 2014 20:01:05 Brian May wrote:
On 18 May 2014 16:09, Bianca Gibson <bianca.rachel.gibson@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm fed up with all the name calling and personal attacks. I'm unsubscribing.
I think this thread is over now.
What is considered to be "name calling"? I've been accused of that recently because of my habit of stating things plainly. If someone makes a statement that is racist or misogynistic then I call it what it is. That doesn't really match most definitions of the term "name calling". It's more about people who believe that freedom of speech means freedom from disagreement. I don't think that some degree of "name calling" (by the normal definition of the term) is necessarily a problem. I generally don't swear much but I don't have any great objection to the occasional use of terms such as "wanker" and "fuck". I do object to the hypocrisy of people making an issue of "name calling" and abuse who do it themselves though.
Otherwise I might unsubscribe too. I lost interest in this discussion some time ago.
The initial point was made, it was a good point, Tim Conners had a positive response (that unfortunately probably will be ignored), then the conversation, at quick glance only, seems to have gone stupid.
I think that the problem here is that discussions aren't just about the stated topic. In recent times we've had people use the Linux Australia and Free Software Melbourne lists to persue their political aims from this list. If each topic was to be just debated as it's own issue then the list would be very different. Regarding your plans to unsubscribe, like any other mailing list if the discussion doesn't interest you then unsubscribing is the correct thing to do. If you think that there is scope for another mailing list with different content then propose it on luv-meta, the list server can run thousands of lists and there's no great difficulty in splitting this list into several lists if there is the demand for it. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/