Melinda Shore writes:

> Unfortunately that no longer works all that well on Usenet,
> either.  The participant pool grows to the point where there's
> always somebody new, or somebody who thinks that the problem
> person has a point and who wants to discuss it, or someone
> who thinks the problem person doesn't have a point but has
> some ill-defined right to be heard, and so on.

You say it as though these were bad things.

> That can work well in some small, close-knit online
> communities where there's a very large set of shared values,
> but it doesn't work all that well here.

That is, small communities where everyone has the same opinion and no
deviations are tolerated.

> Mind you, I just freakin' hate this.  But I don't think the
> process itself as described in 3683 is at all unreasonable.

You'll hate it even more when they come looking for you instead.


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