[MD] Changes in 2011

[Ian Glendinning]

Hi Magnus, Horse,

Certainly a more actively moderated forum is needed for the "difficult
stuff". A "noisy" MD list can be a good source of seeds (grains of
sand), but it's a poor place to develop ideas or progress arguments
(into pearls).

(I've made suggestions on-list before and volunteered off-list to
Horse to help anyway he needs.)

Ian

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Magnus Berg <McMagnus at home.se> wrote:
> 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
>>
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