Haus, you can try and turn it back on me if you want, but you've not made any case for why I've misunderstood. Your statement was:
It's a point... maybe the well-adjusted, interesting and useful people who have read the Invisibles turned up here a while ago and all that is left is a slow drip of fools.
I would be ashamed to speak about fellow human beings in such a manner. Maybe you feel differently. But if we're here discussing how the board should be run, I just don't think that talking about people in terms of such harsh criteria is any help whatsoever. If you want to have a better go at explaining why you feel I've misunderstood, fair enough, but the meaning of your original statement was pretty self-evident to me. And that kind of talk is not going to help the board progress, in my opinion.
[Incidentally, I’ve been racking my brains as to how you know it’s my birthday tomorrow, but thanks]
Xyu – yeah, it’s me. Hope you don’t remember too much 
Spatula – seems I didn’t get the point you were making re. The times. I understand now, you couldn’t have been referring to me, so a lot of what I was saying above was based on a wrong assumption. Sorry about that.
As for the U2 thread, whether it could have progressed into anything more useful hardly seems like the point. I’m not saying it should have been left alone in anticipation of it turning into something good. It was never going to. It should have been left alone because there was nothing to be achieved by trying to stamp it into the ground. I care nothing about that thread, but I was bothered by your tone in the thread and the sort of terms you were using. For one thing, signal vs noise is a pretty subjective thing, and I don’t see how anything useful can come of discussing things in those terms, in the U2 thread or in this one. I’ll be interested to see what responses people make to your serious question about the signal to noise ratio, but I’m not holding out too much hope. Asking positive and open-ended questions like “what do people want from the board?” seems a lot more helpful.
I’ve always taken the view that a thread being crap or pointless is no reason to interfere with it. Let democracy work it out. If enough people want to post in a thread, who are the moderators to say it’s not worthwhile? Ultimately Barbelith has its core values, and I think they’re strong enough that they don’t need quite the level of protection that people are trying to give them. My view has always been that if something’s offensive, it should be moderated. If it’s taking up excess space, it should be moderated. If it’s crap, pointless or annoying but nothing more, it should be left alone, and the Barbelith community trusted to treat it with the contempt it deserves. |
but as to what you said here :