<div dir="ltr"><div>I just posted a request to move the discussion off the BLU list. <br><br></div>What are your thoughts on how we should handle it if members ignore the request and continue polluting the list with this off-topic material? <br><br>I'm not sure what we can actually do, short of unsubscribing and banning the repeat offenders, and that's a heavy-handed precedent I'd rather not set. <br><br>But as Bill pointed out, we've already had at least one rage-quit due to this flame war, and if we do nothing, we could lose even more members.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Bill Ricker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Will Rico <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:willrico@gmail.com" target="_blank">willrico@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">2- It would be nice to be mindful of sensitive issues and words, while avoiding the public shaming of people who make mistakes. There are shades of grey here.</blockquote></div><br></span><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Agree. <br></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Object to the language, not the person, if at all possible. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">(With Pieri, that's hard ... his interactions are so contrariy as to blur the line between language, behavior, person.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">With
some-find-objectionable words, the correct response is apologize and move
on, and that's hard to do when it starts as a confrontation.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Alas
Ned calling a word 'is racist' first rather than 'found offensive by
some' will raise defensive hackles as being called racist is itself
pretty offensive and might be inferred even if not implied by calling a
word 'racist'.</div></div><span class=""><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr">Bill Ricker<br><a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux</a> <br></div></div></div>
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