[Air-l] Trolls. Lurking. And the "we" that should move on

[Dr. Steve Eskow]

Will, the matter may not warrant an extended discussion, but your message 
below deals with "malicious trolling," and "flaming," and I would certainly 
agree that those behaviors would warrant warnings and possible exclusion. 
Your proposal that we move on, however, was that "we" move on and leave 
behind a discussion of these matters: that is, if we had agreed your post 
below and this response would be out of order, since we are continuing the 
discussion.

Steve Eskow
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Bain" <willronb at yahoo.com>
To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 12:30 AM
Subject: Re: [Air-l] Trolls. Lurking. And the "we" that should move on


> Steve Eskow wrote: >"Is there, then, the need for a totalizing decision 
> for "us" to "move
> on"?
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>  Steve, my view is that aoir is putting together its moving on in the 
> ongoing discussions here. There is, obviously, an executive group, which 
> consults the membership, probably more (just guessing) right here in the 
> discussions than in f2f meetings. You're right that my post was 
> generalizing my own perceptions and assuming a kind of monolithic 
> organisational agreement on readers' part before really establishing a 
> definite argument. From my side of the computer screen the air-l group 
> assessment seems to be that no general (if that is what totalizing means 
> in this case) decision on the part of aoir membership neaeds to be 
> established as basic policy. Or the basic polciy already exists that 
> malicious trolling is considered inappropriate & flaming if it gets out of 
> hand will bring exec warnings and possibly exclusion from listserv. I 
> think gettning any ore specific than that would be unwarranted 
> totalizing,actually. My general and lurkerish dos centavos fwiw :)
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>  wrb
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> William Bain
> PhD Student
> Comparative Literature
> Department of Spanish Philology
> Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
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