[kj] ) OT I love you to everyone...

[sade1]

How can we know...
   
    I've been here since the 20th century ('98 or so..cassettes, glowsticks, Dee-Lite, 
  raves, etc.) when Gatherers and gathering were over at UBL so I know for a fact these 
  kinds of shenanigans and inanity have always (& in all ways) existed here, both read 
  and written by everyone here,** and rarely ( as in, rarely) did anyone really object, even 
  when it got bad (racism, personal attacks, pro-Bush opinions, etc.)...
   
  ...and, it's hard (next to impossible,really) to tell when some thread will go off and really 
  stray - until way after it's done so, so:
     where can we draw The Line? that is, without intimidating creative and free speech. Hm..
  ..how can we (individually) predict the future quality and future trajectory of a given thread?
  Hm...  I don't know. 
   
  (and no i haven't forgotten that the number of Jokers here has at least tripled since KJ-2003, 
  and that more and more people are accessing their internetss on the go thru laptops, 
  cellphones, computers at work, Blackberrys, etc.)
   
    Something I find does work for me is that if i can trust the message titles to be in tune 
  with the message, if people properly title their messages and change or add to that title as
  the subject/s of the messages change, then we can all feel confident in deleting [on sight]
  a thread of no interest. 
    For example, I personally don't care about the "btats remasters" so i delete entire threads
  of it [no offense to those who do care for btats remasters], and when a title reflects a change 
  in subject, that also helps me decide to read or delete.
   
    Also, and this is a long long shot, maybe if the board can be reformatted to show individual postings in sequential order, would that help? Because recently i've been getting lots of messages hours or even days after someone's posted it, or messages are posted twice (no not just Mel's).
   
  Anyway, my two cents' worth.
   
  ** how many frekqin' times do we 
     have to hear who started punk where? 
     I rest my case.
   
  
"T.B." <Partyslammer at socal.rr.com> wrote:
  "jo" wrote:


> Aw don't inhibit people. It's cool to 'hear' Gatherers speaking freely.


I have to chime in. Quick back n' forth nonsensical stuff like 95% of 
what's shown up here the past few days here really belong in someplace like 
IRC or some chat room. I'm all for off-topic posts but after 50+ 
one-sentence messages in a couple hour's time, it just becomes wasted 
bandwidth. I get all my mail mirrored on my Blackberry and it's a fucking 
pain in the ass to have to individually delete hundreds of useless posts 
that accumulate in just a day's time. And I'm sure I'm not the only 
subscriber that storing, deleting and sifting through junk e-mail is more 
than a simple matter of "skip what you don't want to read."

Think of it as a simple courtesy to your fellow list members.

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