[p2p-research] a short message on our list culture and authority arguments

[Michel Bauwens]

I agree that 300 is too much, I didn't count them myself, but realized this
weekend that it was a huge effort to get through my backlog, it was if if it
came in more rapidly than I could even process in real time ...

this may or not be related to the recent controversies, but, since the issue
has now come up a few times, we should start thinking of solving it in some
way or other,

I propose to divide the list in 2 ... one for links, announcements, and
requests for assistance by network members, this could be called,
p2pfoundation-announce; the rule here would be, no direct response to the
list, but only direct response to the announcers or the people requesting
assistance, and this would reduce the volume

the other p2p research would be used for discussions around the nature of
p2p, topically oriented

we could duplicate the member list, send an invitation, and those that do
not confirm would be unsubscribed to the second one?

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 3:08 PM, <cosma at ruc.dk> wrote:

>
>
> Sorry guys,
> do you realize that with this mailing system you have sent in three days
> more than 300 hundreds mail some of them just saying basically nothing. If
> this course will continue I will be obliged to op out this list.
> thank you
> cosma
>
>
>
> Quoting Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>:
>
>  Here is a short message that is addressed to Andrew but concerns all of
>> us:
>>
>> "I am concerned  that the very culture of our discussion list has been
>> derailed by your science-based authority arguments, which are typically
>> expressed as 'you're totally wrong', 'this has been settled by science 10
>> years ago', etc. Your continuous appeal to scientific authority without
>> using evidence, and your summary dismissals, delegitimize and paralyze a
>> lot
>> of the freeflow dialogue between intelligent persons that had gone on. I
>> respectfully request that you express your views with greater moderation
>> and
>> with a greater regard for the human reality that other discussants have
>> varied perspectives."
>>
>> Please note I will not engage directly with Andrew for the time being, it
>> has literally deleterious physical effects for me, so I have to stay out
>> of
>> it, but I wanted to purvey my concern about the list culture, which
>> hitherto
>> was of an exemplary civility.
>>
>> Michel
>>
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