[wlug_org] First draft of WellyLUG rules and guidelines

[Damon Lynch]

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.

They are suggestions / guidelines.  There are only two rules.

> If people cannot be decent and civil to each other then no list of rules
> is going to help,

See above.  It's not a list of rules.  It's more like a reference to
refer to when help is needed.

>  confrontation is all part of human nature and it is up
> to people to learn how to handle it.

There are a variety of options.  These include "I don't like it any more
and I'm going home".  Another is "let's sort this out so we all
benefit".   Personally I know which one I prefer.

> 
> My main beef isn't with having rules as such but rather the 'warm fuzzies'
> way that it has been written.

If you have a better way of wording it, I for one would be keen to hear.

>  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?

No but the problem is that people have conditioned themselves to react
in ways that at times can be very unhelpful for the rest of us.  When
people get all fired up, what they lose is precisely the freedom to
choose how to react.  Instead they are like a rubber ball thrown up
against and bouncing off a wall.  These guidelines are meant to increase
freedom, not take it away.....

Damon