Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 13:54:05 -0700 From: Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> To: Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org> Cc: Roderick <hruodr@gmail.com>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Infinite stupid threads ... Message-ID: <CAHu1Y73E_DvrYH58SydPotb7UMja8Q3a=pazN-y3gaM%2B4PKxbw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20200617133525.4cd210d3@bigus.dream-tech.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.22.419.2006171931420.1447@fbsd.local> <CAHu1Y71w2A3qx944T=FM9EfQtE2NyGcwcUAtfeXAfY3MZSpxHw@mail.gmail.com> <20200617133525.4cd210d3@bigus.dream-tech.com>
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On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 1:35 PM Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 13:02:49 -0700 > Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com> wrote: > > I do like the fact that sometimes troll-initiated threads get hijacked = by > > thoughtful discourse. > > This is the exact reason I like to watch threads and occasionally respond= . > > Personally, I find the word "troll" overused and meaningless. Only the > very old > school know what a -real- troll is. > I'm so old, I fart dust. My first USENET post was in 1983. > > Any discussion of etiquette is doomed. > > Of course it is. Etiquette is an arbitrary subjective standard, Respectfully, I beg to differ. Etiquette is a customary code of polite behavior. Consider it, in this context, to be the rules of the game for discourse, and the analogy is apt =E2=80=93 it's hard to play tennis if you= don't agree on the rules. Therefore rules of etiquette should be few in number, and easy to remember, and reinforced regularly. There are cultural and linguistic and generational divides here, so etiquette helps define the neutral ground of our colloquy. --=20 "Well," Brahm=C4=81 said, "even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is = no wiser, but an intelligent person requires only two thousand five hundred." - The Mah=C4=81bh=C4=81rata
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