response 68 of 184:

Feb 1 19:45 UTC 2004

re: 65

Kristallnacht was also cohesive community thinking.

Okay, okay, that's more than a little extreme. 

Honestly though, what's the point of claiming to support something, when
you're not prepared to support it? 

I think a lot of people are surprised to see responses deleted en masse after
the somewhat recent debate over whether a person can permanently scribble one
of their own responses.

It's unconscionable that so many people would object to someone wanting to
do something as simple as remove their posts, yet many of the same objectors
are willing to write a free pass to friends who want to destry their posts,
as well as the contributions of others. 

Perhaps I'm misreading here, but it seems to me that the objection isn't as
much to popcorn and jep wanting to scribble their posts. The objection is to
the hundreds (thousands?) of others who were *not* willing to have their
writings arbitrarily censored, yet had their contributions forcibly removed.

Although you don't want Grex to become another M-Net, allowing this could
quite possibly be the most M-Netish thing Grex has ever done. And I'm not
talking about M-Net today, but M-Net before 1995.

You're sowing the seeds of favoritism, separate classes of users, and blatant
staff abuse. If those hallmarks haven't made M-Net what it is today, I don't
know what has. 

Rather than view the handful of M-Netters here as dictating "You must be like
M-Net!", try looking at them as people trying to warn you "Don't be like
M-Net." If you're a sci-fi fan, pretend they've come from 2014 to tell you
what Grex looks like in the future.

While I don't necessarily agree with your broad generalization of M-Net's
community atmosphere, there is a certain degree of truth there. To some
(perhaps many), there is solace in simply knowing that Grex is an alternative.
I can't speak for others, but I can say that that's why I've bothered to post
about this. You have a community. Don't screw it up.