Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: proposal - Right to Privacy

["Baron von Skippy" <baronvonskippy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > >-You speak sense, except... Where else would the latter be done? 
> Unless a
> > > >rule or CFI is really, really mean, hostilityis mostly expressed over
> > > >-discuss. Also, HTML mail can screw people up no matter which list 
> it's
> > > >sent
> > > >to.-
> >
> > -This still leaves the matter of hostility, which I thought was a bad 
> idea
> > for the LOGAS, but, in the spirit of... I think it was Voltaire, or 
> someone
> > with a V name, I will now defend its ideals resolutely. Hostility will
> > happen much more often in the looser forums: spoon-discuss, IRC (not 
> that we
> > use that much), and, concievably, private e-mail messages. (Note: anyone 
> who
> > reports that someone else was overly hostile in a private e-mail for the
> > purpose of kicking that player in the ass will be forever unofficially
> > branded a jackass, and no one will ever talk to you again, and your 
> friends
> > wil shun you, and you'll get a nasty paper cut. Jackass.)-
> >
> >                                                    -BvS-
>
> It's true that hostility happens mostly in the private forum-but that
> forum still shouldn't be regulated. It's not part of the game officially,
> just as two of us talking casually about the game isn't part of the game.
> Just as an overly hostile email shouldn't be kicked in the ass, an
> overly hostile private forum message shouldn't either, for the same
> reason-it's not official. The "Jackass" brand applies just as well.
>
> I think the "kick-in-the-ass" system is fairly good for public forums,
> because the penalty is about right. Of course, as pointed out, Nomic can't
> _prohibit_ anything, only _penalize_ after the fact-just like governments.
>
> Hence, my proposal...keeping kicks in the ass for public forums, but no
> restrictions on private forums.
>
> Athena
-Eh, screw Voltaire. Having hostility be a kickable offense does create 
issues of "how much is unbridled," and that will make stupid CFJs...-

                                                  -BvS-


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