Taking the pledge

On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 14:08:48 GMT, Kevin Clarke
wrote in . net:

People should behave a certain way because it is the
appropriate way to behave not because they have sworn allegiance to a
group. This includes posters and responders to posters.


Absolutely.

Unfortunately, some people are incapable of thinking, and need someone
to lead them. That's what empowers shamans to make them drink arsenic
laced KoolAid, and copulate with their children. The human race is
still evolving. We must be patient.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort
to avoid the real labor of thinking.
-- Sir Joshua Reynolds

All we have to do is not engage in flame wars. It's quite simple.

Would you go along with it, if it looks like the majority of the group
wishes it?

I will not engage in flame wars. I don't think I have ever done so
(though I suppose that's a matter of opinion

I will however =not= let the mob however make my decisions for me.
Likewise, I will not make decisions for the mob. The tools for ignoring
are easy to use, and there's no reason to make noise about using them.
If everyone just silently ignored what they didn't want to read, there
would be no problem. Not to say there would be no trolls, just that the
trolls wouldn't be a problem.

So no, I won't join the mob.

Jose
--
Humans are pack animals. Above all things, they have a deep need to
follow something, be it a leader, a creed, or a mob. Whosoever fully
understands this holds the world in his hands.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

In a previous article, Mike 'Flyin'8' said:
Has anyone thought about using a program that looks a certain
individuals name and immediatly issues a usenet message cancel based
upon said users name and the newly posted subject?

http://home.att.net/~marjie1/Cancels.htm

I've been a Usenet news administrator since before Geoff Peck championed
the split of rec.aviation, and I have a couple of things to say:

- Any decent Usenet administrator who finds people doing content based
third party cancels on his system will remove the person doing the
content based cancels. Censorship will not be tolerated on a system I
run.
- Because so few news sites are run by decent Usenet administrators,
however, and because people like you are ****ing idiots and have abused
the cancel system, many major sites ignore all cancels, so you can't
even cancel your own messages off those sites, never mind legitimate
spam cancelling. If your newsgroups are drowning in spam, you have only
the idiots who think they can cancel people they disagree with to blame.

--
Paul Tomblin http://blog.xcski.com/
"The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it
is a complete substitute for life." --Andrew Brown

"Jose" wrote

I will not engage in flame wars. I don't think I have ever done so
(though I suppose that's a matter of opinion

I will however =not= let the mob however make my decisions for me.
Likewise, I will not make decisions for the mob. The tools for ignoring
are easy to use, and there's no reason to make noise about using them. If
everyone just silently ignored what they didn't want to read, there would
be no problem. Not to say there would be no trolls, just that the trolls
wouldn't be a problem.

So no, I won't join the mob.

Figures.

Note: Jose- not a team player.

Likewise, I will not make decisions for the mob. The tools for ignoring
are easy to use, and there's no reason to make noise about using them.
If everyone just silently ignored what they didn't want to read, there
would be no problem. Not to say there would be no trolls, just that the
trolls wouldn't be a problem.

So no, I won't join the mob.

So, in other words, you will join the mob -- you just won't announce
it.

Better yet!

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 08:44:14 -0500, Morgans wrote:

All we have to do is not engage in flame wars. It's quite simple.

Would you go along with it, if it looks like the majority of the group
wishes it?

You'll never know the majority of this or any other open group. You only
see the regulars, that's all. And be aware that the group can be "hijacked"
any time by a bunch of MX-like people.

#m
--
I am not a terrorist. http://www.casualdisobedience.com/

"Larry Dighera" wrote:

Unfortunately, some people are incapable of thinking, and need someone
to lead them. That's what empowers shamans to make them drink arsenic
laced KoolAid, and copulate with their children.

Not to mention fly airplanes into buildings [aviation content!].

The human race is still evolving. We must be patient.

Sorry, I don't have another 100,000 years to wait around. I reserve the right
to be impatient.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort
to avoid the real labor of thinking.
-- Sir Joshua Reynolds

Indeed. That is why we have priests and politicians, the twin curses of the
human race.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

"JH" == Jay Honeck writes:
JH I personally find this amazing (he truly doesn't bother me
JH that much)

A rare occasion when I agree with Jay. What's the big deal with this
mxsmanic guy? I have to conclude that it's the newsreader people use;
if you don't use any filtering the guy's post and followups are in
your face as much as the occasional post related to piloting an
airplane.

But I would take Jay's pledge a lot more seriously if it included a
sacrifice on his part...like not posting his own off-topic **** here.
At least mxsmanic's posts are related to aviation. Too often Jay's
posts have nothing whatsover to do with aviation, or piloting, and
exhibit an offensive bigotry towards some group he doesn't like.
These posts then start long followups, for and against, which is what
I think Jay really likes--"look what I did! I generated the longest
reply chain this month!"

So Jay's pledge is meaningless. The real antidote to mxsmanic, Jay's
racial rants, and like kind? Do some flying and post your stories.
Mine is to follow.

--
When Armageddon comes, it would be good to be an Olympic athlete,
because running real fast and jumping over stuff could come in
handy.
- Jack Handey

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 09:40:54 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote in :


So no, I won't join the mob.

Figures.

Note: Jose- not a team player.


Jose is capable of independent thought.

If the herd want's to jump off the cliff, he has the good sense to go
his own way.

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 09:29:42 -0600, "Dan Luke"
wrote in
:


The human race is still evolving. We must be patient.

Sorry, I don't have another 100,000 years to wait around. I reserve the right
to be impatient.

I should have put a :-) after that statement.

When you evolve a little further, you'll see that impatience only
works against you. :-)