Partly on Posting limits Plus Plenty of Rambling

[M.Clifford]

> > Valky wrote:
> > 
> > >but past measures (OTChatter - FAQ) have kept a total crisis at 
> bay for quite some time now. I think we should measure our success 
> by how well we embrace it, not by how politically correctly we 
> stifle it. Am I really alone on that?<
> > 
> > KathyK: 
> > 
> > No, Valky, you're not alone.  I see your point and I agree to an 
> > extent.  The rest of this isn't directed at you, but is more a 
> > general response to this and past discussions.  I know you have 
> made a suggestion, as have others, for the creation of separate 
> lists for 'higher-quality' discussion with, as Carolyn & Barry 
> suggested as one of their solutions, stricter guidelines for 
posting 
> to said lists. 
> 
> 
> Valky replies:
> Actually, I am not sure that I am understood completely. The extra 
> lists that I propose have far less to do with elitism than asking 
> members not to post until they have something um "good enough" by 
> the standards of others.
> 
> I notice that in your post you have mentioned that the tennis 
> debates are your pet peeve. Well, as a frequent debater myself I 
> would also like to add that a large number of my personal list 
> contacts were made through someone writing me personally to tell 
me *they* were thoroughly enjoying reading the debate.
> All I am saying is that in the past HPFGU has endeavoured to 
embrace everyone, and I credit a great deal of the HPFGU popularity 
to that optimism and fair treatment.
> Should we know be telling these people that we once embraced into 
> our fold those feelings have changed and that they are no longer 
> welcome?

I sicerely apologise for adding this late, but I really need to say 
that I did not ever espouse that any style of posting was more "high 
quality" than any other. Just that in all fairness someone needs to 
point out that the 3-a-day rule is an elistist lash at the debaters 
coming from a frame of mind that considers that contribution to 
be "low quality". 

Can there be a place for everyone?