On 2010-07-01 15:50, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
In any event, this list would be more useful to all of us -- especially the hacks like me -- if we were all a little more honest and a little more critical in our comments on images submitted to the group.
I'll agree, if you'll change the word "would" to "could". I've been around PDML since late in 1998, and on the Internet for far longer than that, and participating in information "debate societies" for longer still. I've seen how little it takes for a single individual to push a well functioning debate into what we call a "flame war" on the Internet. Sometimes even destroying a well functioning society, like this one. Several have come close in my tenure with the PDML. Even well meaning ones, like Shel.
What you're suggesting certainly can work. But it absolutely requires that either everyone abide by the "civility rules" or there be a swift and sure mechanism to fix the problem when they're broken. A public list, blog, whatever, on the Internet, rarely has strong enough governance to correct these problems, much less prevent them in the first place.
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