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I'm inclined to think that we ought to just close house for a certain amount of time and take the time to clean house, meaning get ourselves settled down and not stabbing at everything that moves behind the arras.
I wish that people would not be so quick to brand other posters as trolls or knodges. In the current climate, it's incendiary & it's demagoguery. People are cleverer than that, think of some other way to insult each other for the time being.
I'd like to reiterate that a "don't feed the trolls" code isn't being proposed as a single solution for the board, but rather to work in concert with whatever other measures are implemented. It isn't about getting 1,000 posters to toe the line all together, it starts with each individual person taking responsibility for hir own choices and, as they say in Al-Anon, taking it one day at a time. But imagine if it caught on, if it became an epidemic... if you could sense that troll-baiting was not in the culture of this place, you could borrow from the strength of the community. For an example of how an epidemic works for the bad, you only have to observe the present situation. But I believe that we can turn this around.
We are far from this, though. Mostly I see people saying "we can't" or "I can't" or even that it's wrong to let certain things pass. I think that this is very worth discussion, perhaps in a separate thread. |
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