Re: Reintroducing myself.

Irina Rempt wrote:

But I think either someone should propose r.a.sf.politics (which I will
gladly vote for) to do this in,

No one will go there except the people who do NOTHING but discuss politics.

This will not remove them from the other groups.

Nor will this have the SLIGHTEST EFFECT on whether people mention political subjects or get involved in their discussion, on this or any other group. No group I've ever seen, except moderated ones, has avoided that, and I doubt they ever will.

or everybody who wants to talk about
writing without fear that it will turn to politics should flee to
misc.writing.moderated, which is at least moderated.

The only moderated groups I've ever been able to tolerate are scientific ones. Anything outside of that I have to rely on the moderator's interpretation to accord with mine, and they usually don't.

Of course, that's a
purely on-topic newsgroup and we'll be deprived of cats and chocolate,
but on the whole I think I'd prefer it. As it is, I'm refraining from
posting about writing because I don't want to be the one who starts a
thread that someone will turn into a politics/economics thread.

Then you are certainly right to refrain from posting, as ALL threads can be turned into a political/economic thread. (if they START that way, perhaps they'll occasionally turn into writing threads, but I wouldn't bet that way).

Of course, if you refrain from posting for that reason, you aren't helping the S/N ratio either.

Why not just post what you want, read the posts that have to do with writing (or other stuff you're interested in), and skip the rest? That's what I do.




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