Zane wrote....
however, you'll get nothing but understanding from
me on this issue. I
totally
understand your reasoning on the issue of recombining the lists.
I don't mind explaining myself and I don't mind going to the list at my
discretion (which is almost 100% of the time) before making a decision. But
I'll be damned if I'm going to be nit-picked ad-nauseum after things have
been discussed. You know what I think is telling.... the few people
complaining about the demise of the 10 year rule are people who said it was
news to them - meaning they never saw the definition I gave back in 2005.
What this tells me, is these few people are bitching when they don't even
know the details of what I was trying to replace it with. That type of
complaint really doesn't deserve the little time I have to respond.
Now that my hand is being destroyed by listmembers with too much time on
their hands, some explanation: My HOPE was to gradually make moderation and
enforcement of on-topic posts here on cctalk more and more noticeable in
preparation to migrate the cctech people here who have "more stringent
concepts of on-topic". I was sure this would help mitigate the obvious
differences between those two lists when they were rejoined in order to
avoid the issues that lead to the split in the first place. In fact, thanks
to this whole thread, the differences have now been more exacerbated. Much
appreciated. Thanks! (sarcasm in print) You think YOU have to deal with
angst when they join here and complain about off-topicness? You have NO
clue. Get in my shoes. But then again, it's easy when the primary person who
get the complaints is me.
I do not wish to be terse, nor do I wish to be unhelpful or antagonistic -
but I personally will not continue with this topic on-list. I think most
people would say I'm not excitable and not quick to judgement (or anger).
But I have reached a point where I don't feel my participation in this
thread will be helpful. After a short break on this topic I will surely
regain my composure.
Jay