Brian J Mingus wrote:
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Michael Snow wrote:
It's not that those discussions wouldn't be relevant to have on this list, and periodically people try and encourage others to move them to a more public setting. It's that when this list continues to show a tendency for conversation to degenerate, as it just did, then it's quite hard to persuade people that they should want to have their discussions here.
You believe that my reply to Tim is degenerate? That is offensive.
There's a big difference between "degenerate" as a verb, and the same word as an adjective. The adjective is full of additional connotations.
Past practice has shown that that the most effective way to keep a thread alive is to try to get it stopped.
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