Text 44872, 62 rader
Skriven 2006-12-24 06:31:32 av Bob Ackley (1:2905/3)
  Kommentar till text 44559 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: America
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Replying to a message of Ed Hulett to Bob Ackley:

 EH> � wrote:
 BA>> Replying to a message of Bj�rn Forsstr�m to Ed Hulett:

 EH>>>>>> Go back to sleep.

 BF>>>>> Go back to POLITICS.

 EH>>>> Stuff it.

 BF>>> Since there isn't much traffic in POITICS right now you have to come
 BF>>> here and spew your propaganda.

 BA>> Actually there's a group of perhaps a half dozen individuals who have
 BA>> their own effectively private echo (ALL-POLITICS) that now has AFAIK
 BA>> zero traffic.

 EH> You are wrong as usual.

It's an observable fact, Edwin.  Anyone who wants to rummage through several
years of my archives can see it.

 BA>> They also populate POLITICS, which has had perhaps half a dozen new
 BA>> messages in the past week or so (down from 250 or more a day some
 BA>> years back).  The group has migrated to and taken over (by running
 BA>> everyone else out) CROSSFIRE (with the assistance of the moderator
 BA>> there) and is trying to do the same in DEBATE, where the
 BA>> co-moderator is fighting what is probably going to be a losing
 BA>> battle with them.

 EH> I thought FIDO was open for all to participate in whatever echo they
 EH> choose.

 EH> And, agsain, you are wrong. No one has run anyone out of CROSSFIRE and
 EH> no one is trying to run anyone out of DEBATE.

Six months ago, before your crowd arrived there, there were a wide variety of
posters in CROSSFIRE.  For at least the past month at least 80% of the traffic
in that echo - higher percentage in the past week - has been from you folks.

 EH> When you figure it out how anyone can be "run out of" an echo by
 EH> anyone but the moderator, let me know.

Sure.  People simply don't wish to deal with you folks and they go away.
That's one reason Alan Hess started CROSSFIRE several years ago - to provide
a venue for political discussion that was not dominated by drooling right wing
fanatics whose idea of political discussion mainly seems to be personal attacks
and cheap shots against those who disagree with them.

That's also why Hardegree started ALL-POLITICS several years ago.  He didn't
like the policies of the then current moderator (Crackpot) and wanted an echo
more to his liking.  Some folks posted in both, but most stayed in POLITICS.

As you alluded to in another post, people are free to associate with those
they wish to associate with - but they are also free to *not* associate with
those they do not wish to associate with.  And that's why a lot of other people
leave echoes after you folks show up.  It has nothing to do with moderators.


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