Posted by Smalls at syr-24-24-14-133.twcny.rr.com on November 25, 2001 at 23:26:20:
In Reply to: What are you proposing? posted by t o m on November 25, 2001 at 23:12:34:
: I sense the suggestion of an eventual "magic eraser" style cleansing in your post. Perhaps I'm just reading too much into it.
I'm just more saying... that the ultimate issue of so-called "newbie" troubles is of over-population... something that really can't or shouldn't be messed with. Because having a lot of people around here isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's a very good thing in a lot of ways.
There's probably the same bad poster to good ratio in every wave of new posters... it's just that there's so many voices talking at once.
I guess my "proposal" would be that posters should only post when they actually have something ask or say... and they're not just posting to be seen, to prove something or just to kill time.
But we're on the internet, of course... where par for the course is saying things just to be heard or to prove you're clever *cough* Anamorphia Sinerama *cough*... and saying things because you have something to say is the exception to the rule.
So that's kinda out.
Mike