Agreed.
I don't like this.
When herd mentality like this kicks in, tolerance, freedom of
expression and compassion get kicked out. We lose humanity and our
sense of perspective in the hysteria. It's how we fail as a species,
on a bigger scale, with wars and the like.
The correct perspective is that we are dealing with less than 1
message per day.
The correct thing to do is to treat all people with dignity and respect.
Thanks,
David.
On 10 August 2010 10:54, Lindsay, John M <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The response to the occasional email from the list owner on Facebook above fascinates. There is hardly a message a day. I find the bot who owns the Facebook group responds fairly frequently, and sufficiently intelligently, that Turing would be impressed. Deleting messages that you don't want to read, about ten a day on lis-link, is done easily and collectively in digest mode, it isn't hard work. The messages on scholarship 2.0 are often telling me something I didn't know, and occasionally useful or I want to follow them. The same sort of thing happens on the KIDMM list. This is the first time I've seen a lis-link thread develop a discussion (these are called discussion lists for a reason) and I am stunned by parts of the community committed to freedom of expression and access to information (1948) responding in a manner of managerialism?
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> Approaching an employer I find simply scandalous, and unethical.
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