[Coco] This tickles me....

[Derek]

There will always be off topic discussions on here and messages that start on topic then drift far off topic. I for one do not want to control what gets said here. I think it how it works now is pretty good. When a message goes far off topic the community here regulates itself and when things go to far there is an outcry that tends to hush things up. I for one do not feel the need to control each and every conversation here, one because it's really not possible and two I am just that in need of controlling every situation around me. Let people be themselves without the attempt to regulate.




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--- On Thu, 10/23/08, George Ramsower <georgeramsower at gmail.com> wrote:
From: George Ramsower <georgeramsower at gmail.com>
Subject: [Coco]  This tickles me....
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 7:54 PM

 I'm amused at what sometimes happens here on the Coco list.

 When we begin talking about topics not directly related to COCOS this list 
sometimes develops some differences of opinions and escelates into some sour 
notes being exchanged.
  It is normal for folks to have disagreements on topics. However, this 
shouldn't happen on this Coco list because, most always, the topics
aren't 
even Coco topics.

 I'm fairly sure this stuff wouldn't happen as often if we could keep
the 
subjects in line with the directive of this list group.

 It's difficult to argue about how we go about working with a Coco. All the

arguments have been discussed for many years and are finally settled.

 Linux, Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Ford and Chevy and the weather have nothing 
to do with this list. Not even politics and the economy have anything to do 
with this list.

 What tickles me is when someone says "Shut UP, already!" yhen,
suddenly 
there is almost no traffic at all. This implies that there is too much 
traffic on OFF TOPIC discussions on the Coco listgroup..

 Personally, I wasn't even following the last topic that resulted in sour 
notes until just out of curiosity, I opened one of the last messages in that 
discussion to find that folks were exchanging very clever blows at each 
other. It's sad but, I was impressed how the verbiage was well designed.

 Perhaps we could improve this listgroup if we worked dilligently at trying 
to keep it directly related to a Coco.

 I betcha that whatever off topic discussion we get into has a listgroup on 
that topic somewhere else, having the same debate.

 I would think it wouldn't be too difficult to find that listgroup, join up

and carry on there.

 Whucha say? Can we work on this?


George

 


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