P-List Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

[jbor]

on 12/4/03 1:30 AM, Steve Maas at tyronemullet at hotmail.com wrote:

> For those who may not realize how significantly the tenor of the p-list has
> changed in recent years.
> 
> A-and you can't explain it all by excitement over the first read of M&D, and
> you can't blame it all on the war either.

Yes, I think the improvement is due to the fact that, apart from one or two,
most of the regular participants nowadays are no longer interested in
getting involved in those long, drawn-out flame wars over the latest Iris
Chan book or the audacity of someone like Jules Siegel posting to the list
and blaspheming the name of our good Saint Tom - "You're a wife-beating
child molester", "No, you are" - and that, for the most part, trolls and
flame-baits are ignored.

Having read the first five or so years of the archives, with Koopman, quick
to insult guys like Samsel and Steelhead, and the appalling way that Bonnie
Surfus was treated, like everything else the general trend is that people
have become smarter, less likely to be duped and drawn into some nasty
little maelstrom, and discussion (what there is of it) is more efficient as
a result.

best