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

[Dr. Steve Eskow]

Is the "we" of the online "community" the "we" of the face-to-face meeting?

Perhaps the temporal organizatiion of the face-to-face setting , its 
synchronicity, insists that when "we" talk of  trolls we can talk of nothing 
else: and that those not interested in trolls are forced to listen, if not 
to speak.

In such a "meeting" as this "we" can be several "we's," it seems, each "we" 
discussing a different topic, or "lurking" with interest in a different 
topic, while other "we's" listen and lurk to other ideas.

Is there, then, the need for a totalizing decision for "us" to "move on"?

Steve Eskow
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Bain" <willronb at yahoo.com>
To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 12:53 AM
Subject: [Air-l] Trolls


> Folks,
>
>  I wonder if I could break lots of rules and send a short comment here in 
> a too general sense and jamming together diifrent thing s that have been 
> talked about in regard to this subject. I was kind of briefly in on the 
> discussuion when it started, and I did mention the diea of agreeing to 
> disagree, which by now has been much more elocquently expressd or 
> re-expressed by a number of people. Anyway, the short bit I wanted to say 
> was just that I, like several others who have recently spoken, have always 
> found this list welvcoming and at the same time (as I'd hope) bright 
> enough to be impateint with tiresome comments. I do hope that this isn't a 
> tiresome comment, but I also wanted to add my voice to others saying we 
> should move on from this topic. Actually, I think that's already the case 
> and people have shown that the elenchics aoir rpomotes have an eloqunces 
> of their own. the one negativish idea that sprang up (from my perspective) 
> is some of the comments about students.
> Adult to adult, we're all students, tho ovbiously at different phases and 
> in different roles. several moons ago an experession was used on this 
> list, "ghetthoisation of graduate students" I think wa s the phrase. I 
> think it's good to recall that expression in regard to moving on and, 
> well, end of short bit and in support of continued elenics :-)
>
>  WRB
>
>
>
> William Bain
> PhD Student
> Comparative Literature
> Department of Spanish Philology
> Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
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