From: louisnews@comcast.net
Date: Thu Aug 15 2002 - 20:22:27 MDT
On 8/15/02, 8:15:43 PM, Phil Osborn <philosborn2001@yahoo.com> wrote
regarding RE: META: Trolling?:
> Goodness knows, we can't have any "thought
> experiments!" Who knows what uncensored new ideas
> might somehow be turned loose on the world.
No one objected to "thought experiments". (A true "thought experiment"
asks the reader to consider some situation.) We are objecting to people
performing "experiments" on US. We, the extropians, are here for people
to talk to, not to "experiment with".
> Not that I've personally used the tactics in question,
> but I personally neither care nor can understand why
> anyone else cares about the motivation of a poster,
...
> So why worry yourself sick over the wierd motivations
> some poster to the list may have? All that matters is
> whether the post is interesting and what one might get
> from it or from a discussion that might follow.
Some of us are not so selfish as to only look for what WE can get out of
a conversation. I answer questions because I want to help the other guy
get something out of the conversation.
If the person really doesn't want the answer then I wasted my time. More
than that, it's just like SPAM. Time wasted answering a fake question
takes away from time that could have been spent answering a real
question.
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