2009/11/2 effe iets anders effeietsanders@gmail.com:
2009/11/2 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com
I'm happy arguing about this. No-one is forcing you to do so. If you want to start another thread about the colour of the sky, go right ahead.
Why can't people on this list learn how to ignore threads? It is very easy to do. You just don't click on them when they appear in your inbox. I'm not interested in everything that is discussed on this list, but I don't complain about other people discussing it; I just ignore it.
Why can't people learn when a discussion is irritating other people, why
can't people learn which discussions are most useful to have, why can't people learn that they might frustrate the very reason for existance of this list? Why can't people learn to realize when to shut up?
I do know when a discussion is irritating people - they make that very clear. What I don't understand is why it irritates them when they could so easily ignore it. There are no limits on how many threads we can have, so saying there are other more useful discussions is a complete non-argument. There are two solutions to this problem - people can ignore the threads they aren't interested in at negligible cost to themselves, or other people can stop discussing the things they are interested it, which is obviously a cost in itself. The former seems like a better solution to me...