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On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 19:10:52 +0200, andrel <a_l### [at] hotmail com>
wrote:
>Samuel T. Benge wrote:
>
>> Am I the only one (besides Greg, Tyler, Bob, and Patrick) who feels this
>> way? Please speak up, or else nothing will be done about it. I hope to
>> enjoy these newsgroups again someday.
>
>I feel the same. As pointed out before I don't object to the nature
>of the posting myself, I do object to the act of postings things
>that some people might find offensive and especially if the poster
>is aware of that.
>
>Everybody using the killfile does not work because that does not
>work for _everybody_, there are always new people visiting and
>for some people for technical or other reasons it is just impossible
>(like apparently in your case).
>Also I think it means that in that case we would allow people to
>break the rules (or not apply common sense) and that we all
>have to act to that individually.
>IMHO the judgement should be at the sender.
>
>With IMBJR we have a case where someone had repeatedly broken
>the rules of the newsgroup, has been told time and again to use
>his common sense before posting remarks that are considered
>offensive by others and then proceeds by posting 'art'.
>Art here being used in the (IMHO perverted) sense of 'something
>that intends to evoke an emotional response from the viewer'.
>(This is founded on a logical fallacy: Real art invokes an
>emotional response, therefore if something invokes an emotion
>it must be art.)
>When as in this case the emotions sought after are anger and/or
>disgust I personally think a news-group centered on a tool to
>create images is not the right place to expose your 'art'.
>What makes this case especially interesting is that we here
>have someone who is not living in the same world as most
>of us, who has shown to have no such thing thar others regard
>as 'common sense' and will most probably not be able to restrain
>himself (or herself as the case may be). So the ultimate
>question is: will he be stopped by the community before
>he stops himself? To which the answer ofcourse is: 42.
Bizarre.
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