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MaggieL · 02-23-2002, 09:21 AM

There was at one time an effective posting limit imposed by a limitation on connect time, and I do think that it shaped the discourse; I think things here are quite different now. But that limitation was created to encourage fair use of a shared resource, not to encourage parsimony.

Every time I've ever heard the term "community standards", it's been connected with political logrolling and a powergrab by those in a position to set down what the "community standards" were going to be.

Whenever a person or group claims to speak for "the community", be on guard.

02-23-2002, 09:21 AM	#7
MaggieL in the Hour of Scampering Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Jeffersonville PA (15 mi NW of Philadelphia) Posts: 4,060	There was at one time an effective posting limit imposed by a limitation on connect time, and I do think that it shaped the discourse; I think things here are quite different now. But that limitation was created to encourage fair use of a shared resource, not to encourage parsimony. Every time I've ever heard the term "community standards", it's been connected with political logrolling and a powergrab by those in a position to set down what the "community standards" were going to be. Whenever a person or group claims to speak for "the community", be on guard. __________________ "Neither can his Mind be thought to be in Tune,whose words do jarre; nor his reason In frame, whose sentence is preposterous..."