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Topic: A Warning to All Brainstorms Posters
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Moderator
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posted 20. September 2002 07:53
1. Either make substantial comments or make no comments at all
2. Stop rehearsing the old, tired and worn out lines from the debates you are familiar with.
I will start to enforce these two warnings on all active threads immediately.
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Evan
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posted 20. September 2002 10:23
Can you give us some examples of "tired, worn out lines.", please?
I see two problems:
One is that vague warnings like this are hard to interpret, because (this is problem number two) some of the lines may seem tired and worn out because they apply to perennial problems that are in fact quite unresolved in the minds of the participants.
It would seem like some specifics, either here, or better, right in the thread in which the tired lines occur, would be useful.
Thanks.
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posted 20. September 2002 13:39
Fair questions Evan.
I'm not going to selectively pick on any one one individual because in the last two days there have been a plethora of examples.
However, I will give you a sense of what I mean (which is all I strive to do as Moderator).
For one, I detest the persistent back and forth requests to redirect the burden of evidence, often accompanied by the words "why don't YOU tell me how [your favorite theory goes here] explains this." Brainstorms is not meant for this petty stuff.
Second, I can't stand it when the bandwagon jumpers from talk.origins or wherever else (plenty of ID advocates have done this in the past as well) come over to throw in their sentence long, "from the script" jabs.
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