[MF] MOQ: valuable or not?

[Michael Hamilton]

Hi Steve, and any worried lurkers,

Don't get too worried about the bickering. I've been subscribed to MD
for about a year, and I can assure you that the nastiness is nothing
new - it turns up sporadically. About a month after I subscribed, I
was saying something similar to what you just said - basically, a plea
for respectful debate in order to keep the discussion "on track"
without getting sidelined by insults. I don't think I ever rolled out
the "more heat than light" cliche :-) I guess that even the
visionaries need to keep warm.

The thing to realise is that most of the animosity goes back much
longer than you or I have been subscribed to MD, and MD has always
survived it. I don't like conflict much, either. But we can live with
it.

Regards,
Mike

On 3/5/06, Steve Mack <smackc4 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
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> Again for what it's worth, I suspect I can talk with reasonable assumption that certainly myself [and judging by the noticeable LACK of 'posts' lately]; the majority of us have frankly had ENOUGH of the bickering of a select few!
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> It in my opinion that it is / has bordered on disgusting that this forum has degraded to such an extent from what I found it to be only a month or so back when I subscribed to it.
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> The worst part is that new people and future list subscribers will find all of this narkiness in the archives and will not bother to contribute, let alone join the forum because it now [overall] reeks of ill natured content.
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> This WAS a mature & enjoyable forum, but those qualities have now eroded, possibly irreparably, and that is indeed a very sad shame.
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> I'm sure Pirsig would be absolutely beside himself with abhorrence if he were ever to monitor what this arena has become.  For the rest of us; the only way out that I can foresee, is to re-instate the level of intellectual constructive conversation that went before this rather major glitch.
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> ~Steve Mack.
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