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<style> BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;Don't mistake contention</style>Don't be so pessimistic! Lots of good email threads make it onto this list. Even some healthy contentious threads here and there. I wouldn't tag a thread as [drama] until it turns demoralizing and oriented away from achieving any sort of goal. Which only happens occasionally. <br>
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I also don't think it works to forbid drama or splinter into other lists. That's why I promote the [drama] tag as a way for people to contribute to the moderation of said drama without explicitly banning or restricting it. <br>
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Thanks for helping me sort my inbox!<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">On Sun 20/12/09 6:04 PM , "Josh Myer" josh@joshisanerd.com sent:<br>
</span><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(245, 245, 245); margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px;"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Michael Shiloh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:top.opencompose('michaelshiloh1010@gmail.com','','','')">michaelshiloh1010@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Well that makes it easy for Mr. Fine and the rest of us who would like<br>
to filter out drama: Everything should be treated as [DRAMA], except<br>
anything explicitly labeled something useful.<br>
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</div><div>Hence signaltunnel (the google group I set up expressly for nothing but project discussions). I was talking about it with friends recently, sad that it had basically zero traffic. They had a great point: "Wait, so you set up a mailing list that's -discuss without the drama, and then were surprised when it got no traffic? Really?"</div>
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</div><div>I'm hoping the spacebridge folks have a good project report coming up soon!</div><div>--</div></div>Josh Myer 650.248.3796<br>
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