Our quarterly flame-fest, round

[Sidhain]

>Well, since everyone seems to be getting up on the moderator soapbox,
>I'll take my turn!
>
>Do you know what bothers me the most about these silly threads?
>
>This stuff that has nothing to do with BR actually draws more DISCUSSION
>from many MORE LISTMEMBERS than Birthright topics do!!!!!! Arrrgghh!!!
>Can you believe that? Its sad, but true.
>
>What is even more frightening? This just doesn't happen here, but on
>every other email list that this household subscribes to (its incredible
>the tangents those silly 'stuck in the 80's, who don't even appreciate
>REAL sci-fi' traveller fans talk about on Mark Miller's Traveller's
>list. 99% of the messages aren't even about the game and, moreover, a
>_zillion_ messages from that list come through A DAY! !



Truthfully its a form of socialization, I mean how many people play games
with people you don't at least talk to and goof around with for a bit before
getting on with actual gaming?
I learned a long time ago you can't force a topic, you just have to relax
and go with the flow and hope something does turn up of real value...
Its also something to do with anything that is too focused is doomed to fail
its human nature to blow of steam in this way...
Now I don't understand why some people go so vehemently off topic and defend
the off topic status with their dying breaths....*shrugs*

[Memnoch]

I think I will turn off the lurker mode for a bit here too.

The reasons that I tend not to engage in the all to philosophical debates
here, is that IMO they tend to turn into something akin to siblings
squabbling over a toy ("My way is better, "is not", "is so"). Debate on
this list does serve a purpose, but I do have my own ideas about how a
"proper" BR campaign should be run, and they tend to run contrary to the
ideas that are expressed here. I try to keep myself to a purpose of helping
out those who have questions about the rules of the game and their
interpretations. Philosophy, IMO, is for philosophers.

Memnoch
::Lurker Mode back on::
- -----Original Message-----
From: Sidhain
To: birthright@mpgn.com
Date: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: [BIRTHRIGHT] - Our quarterly flame-fest, round 2! You guys
never dissappoint me! Woohoo!


|>Well, since everyone seems to be getting up on the moderator soapbox,
|>I'll take my turn!
|>
|>Do you know what bothers me the most about these silly threads?
|>
|>This stuff that has nothing to do with BR actually draws more DISCUSSION
|>from many MORE LISTMEMBERS than Birthright topics do!!!!!! Arrrgghh!!!
|>Can you believe that? Its sad, but true.
|>
|>What is even more frightening? This just doesn't happen here, but on
|>every other email list that this household subscribes to (its incredible
|>the tangents those silly 'stuck in the 80's, who don't even appreciate
|>REAL sci-fi' traveller fans talk about on Mark Miller's Traveller's
|>list. 99% of the messages aren't even about the game and, moreover, a
|>_zillion_ messages from that list come through A DAY! !
|
|
|
|Truthfully its a form of socialization, I mean how many people play games
|with people you don't at least talk to and goof around with for a bit
before
|getting on with actual gaming?
|I learned a long time ago you can't force a topic, you just have to relax
|and go with the flow and hope something does turn up of real value...
|Its also something to do with anything that is too focused is doomed to
fail
|its human nature to blow of steam in this way...
|Now I don't understand why some people go so vehemently off topic and
defend
|the off topic status with their dying breaths....*shrugs*
|
|
|
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||'unsubscribe birthright' as the body of the message.
|

[WILLELA@aol.co]

The Cooperman [Jim_Cooper@bc.sympatico.ca(Jim Cooper)] is upset because,
among other things, we get off-issue. Sorry, there is little we can do about
it. Our side journeys are normally relevant to the point at issue. But when
I bring up an example to illustrate an issue, and you put up a
counter-example, and we start bringing in illustrations to the illustrations,
we can drift a bit. But these are points of interest (something else that
bothers TC). So we have to accept that we will cover them some.
"LURKING IS EVIL" -TC- Not at all. The lurker is harmless, and even an
advantage in being our admiring(?) audience. Worry about the nuts who write.
(By the way, wasn't there some admonishment against "shouting"?
Yours for deeper dungeons
Lurker Above