[Peace-discuss] Civility

[Wendy Edwards]

I agree.  Although I'm not heavily involved with AWARE, I've observed
a number of online communities in the last 12 years.  When civility
is optional, the entire atmosphere changes.  You get a lot more
flamewars and drama, and these sometimes eclipse the original purpose
of the group.  This is why the UCIMC editors remove troll postings
from the site - they tend to be quite disruptive.  

It seems quite reasonable to unsubscribe when the signal-to-noise
ratio drops below a certain point.  This is hardly childish; rather,
it's a rational decision about how to spend one's time and resources.

Wendy




On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 11:43:37AM -0600, Bob Illyes wrote:
> I'm aware, Carl, that you don't think incivility is a problem.
> We've lost a number of highly valuable members because of this.
> You are wrong.
> 
> Bob 
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