[wlug_org] First draft of WellyLUG rules and guidelines

Jamie Baddeley wlug_org@lists.naos.co.nz
Thu, 06 May 2004 11:39:48 +1200


*Bling!*

You win the prize according to Godwins Law!

Excellent! Well done etc!

http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/G/Godwins-Law.html

game over. move along. nothing to see here.

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 11:29, Jamie Dobbs wrote:
> > I'm surprised you feel this way, given recent events....  you don't
> > think it could have been handled better?
> 
> Yes, it could have been handled better but having rules to say that is HAS
> to be handled better is really quite pointless.
> If people cannot be decent and civil to each other then no list of rules
> is going to help, confrontation is all part of human nature and it is up
> to people to learn how to handle it.
> 
> My main beef isn't with having rules as such but rather the 'warm fuzzies'
> way that it has been written. Nobody should have the right to tell anyone
> else the ways in which they are or are not allowed to react to things that
> they read ... after all this isn't 1984 or Nazi Germany is it?
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