Re: [EXS] Goodbye
2005-06-06 by Harald Schneller
On Jun 6, 2005, at 12:28 PM, exs-users@yahoogroups.com wrote: > Thanks for responding Mark. I was concerned that there had been no > comment > from the moderators on what was a concern about moderation of > posts. I hope > you and Sascha can sort this out to everyone's satisfaction. > > I would like to add my own thanks to Sascha for everything he has > contributed here and elsewhere and express my hope that he will > stick around. > > I spotted the article in the link below by John Dvorak recently. > The free > exchange of views on forums of this type does not have a great > future if he > is on the money. > > http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1821934,00.asp So, imo, that's exactly the point we are talking about in this, as it seems, neverending story, we are discussing a topic, but to discuss it is forbidden, so it gets moderated. Yes, "the man" created mtv, while the story is about music but you don't have to watch it, so there's your freedom again. The Romans had a saying: "Quis custodiat custodes", which means nothing less than: who moderates the moderators? The article cited here tries to proclaim closing Pandora's box again, but, for the freedom of all of us, the contents already escaped. Its all a matter of Yin/Yang, in english, balance