X-Message-Number: 3483
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 15:07:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: CRYONICS:Constitution of Cryonet
As always, Kevin seems balanced and fair in his assessment of issues re
the structure of CryoNet. I would suggest:
1. Many contributors to this forum are libertarians who might (or should)
feel an instinctive antipathy toward the idea of having a moderator, or
even a person who merely sorts the messages between CRYONICS and
CRYONICS.POLITICS. Personally, I feel we should all take on the
individual responsibility to place our messages appropriately. I also
feel that over a period of time, obnoxious people discredit themselves
automatically.
2. The most additional "discipline" that I would like to see would be the
use of a new name for CRYONICS.POLITICS to encourage more posts to go
there when appropriate. For example, we could divide CryoNet into two
sections: messages that are concerned with cryonics in general (the
science, philosophy, social implications, etc) and messages that relate
mainly to SPECIFIC people or organizations. Postings could be preceded by
a note warning visitors that this section is for internal debate.
3. I dislike the idea of kill files or other means to screen out people
who are deemed undesirable.
It seems to me that part of the problem with intemperate contributors is
that we have no "group disapproval" feedback mechanism here. In a public
forum, if someone gets up and says something really stupid or obnoxious,
he may get booed. Here, he will merely provoke a couple of people whom he
probably wants to annoy anyway; the rest of the readers won't bother to
say anything.
If you are a reader of CryoNet who does not normally post messages, and
someone's postings here have annoyed you, it might be a good idea to say
something about it.
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