Mark wrote:
> Man, have I been struck by the sheer
> nastiness of the responses to my
> innocently offered idea. That'll
> learn me...
Not intending to pick a fight here, Mark, but you didn't just
"innocently offer" your idea -- you offered it and offered it
and offered it again, insistently and naggingly, until this
annoying meta-discussion about how best to hold our
discussions represented the majority of the messages coming
across my screen today. In the face of zero support from any
quarter and more than a few people saying, "Sorry, nope, not
interested" you kept insistently and repetitively explaining
why you were right and all the people you were failing to
persuade were wrong.
I don't think anyone would have responded particularly
negatively (in terms of tone -- they would still not have
liked your idea) if you had just said ONCE, "Listen, I know
this might be a lot of work, but I, at least, would like it
better if we made the following change and here is a list of
the reasons the rest of you might like it better, too. If no
one's interested, fine; if you are interested, let me know
and I'll see what I can do to help make this happen."
But that's not what you did.
For the record, no one could accuse me of being a Luddite and
I do appreciate the reasons some other platforms might be
better, but you know what? There's something to be said for
inertia, something to be said for the status quo, and even if
I hadn't read the many messages from people who don't want
any change and the zero messages from people agreeing with
you, I'd have come down on the side of encouraging the
moderators to leave things the way they are.
Now, speaking only on my own behalf (but I suspect I'm not
the only one who feels this way), can we please let this
topic die?
On the other hand: If you have anything to say about the
actual topic of this list -- crime fiction -- I very much
hope you will go ahead and post it.
--Charles
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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Mark R. Harris"
<brokerharris@...> wrote:
>
> Those were two of more than a dozen functionalities
that I
mentioned. Not
> the most important ones. But people seem to reading
just those bits
that
> they can back-slash me on.
>
> Man, have I been struck by the sheer nastiness of
the responses to
my
> innocently offered idea. That'll learn
me...
>
> Mark
>
> --
> Mark R. Harris
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> Appleton WI 54914
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> brokerharris@...
>
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