[MD] Changes in 2011

[Magnus Berg]

Hi Horse

One option could be to relaunch the moderated MoQ Focus list. I'd be 
interested. Perhaps it doesn't even need to be moderated if we can't get 
a decent list of moderators (and with decent, I mean quantity, not quality).

The noise level on MD is a tad too much for me to muster for very long 
at a time.

	Magnus




On 2011-01-03 19:58, Horse wrote:
> Hi Ian
>
> Happy New Year to you too - and to all the rest of you.
>
> I'm not making the term Reification taboo any more than I have made the
> terms SOM or Intellect or Intellectual or similar terms taboo. They're
> just words.
> What I am doing though is killing the whole SOM as Intellect debate and
> any avenues that lead towards it. Marsha's Reification is, from my point
> of view, just another way of expressing that debate.
>
> Something else that I would like to see emerge in 2011 is a debate about
> Politics and the MoQ. This is something that really hasn't occurred here
> yet - I think the reasons are obvious - but maybe I will be able to
> facilitate this during the coming year.
> In case anyone is thinking of jumping in about here, could I please ask
> you to hold on for a while (that's a polite request) as I would like to
> make sure that the general level of debate is back to it's usual caustic
> levels first!
>
> One thing that I have been putting a lot of thought into recently is how
> to balance the right to speak freely with the right to be heard.
> It's a tricky one - how do you balance the interests of those that don't
> scream and shout the loudest with those that do?
> Who upholds the rights of those who wish to have moderate and reasonable
> debate?
>
> Hmmm!
>
> Horse
>
>
>
> On 03/01/2011 09:34, Ian Glendinning wrote:
>> Hi Horse,
>>
>> Glad to see MD is not a democracy, but as I've consistently said any
>> good democracy has good regulation too. You have my support.
>>
>> One observation on the edict itself. The term reification cannot
>> itself be made taboo (I hope, it has valid uses in our discussion - eg
>> misplaced concreteness of named objects), but in this context, as a
>> rhetorical cover for SOLAQI etc ... then the point is clear.
>>
>> Happy new year BTW,
>> Ian
>