Just sent you a PM ... self explanatory when you read it.

Guidelines are just below blue area. I'll keep them there permanently. Your next step is to send me the thing via e-mail.

Right, I've written my first SOLO press release which I'm hoping is suitably topical (NZ) and aphoristic. (Actually, it's very topical, so if wanted, would really need to go out early this week.)

This thread is the only guideline I can find on the site, but relates only to posting here in the forum. I know I've seen a post somewhere regarding the steps for submitting a realease, but I can't find them on a search.

So, perhaps someone can email me: mhubbard@ihug.co.nz

... I didn't realise you were yanking Lindsay's chain - I promise, in the future, to wait at least five seconds for my sense of humour to kick in prior to posting

Duncan Bayne intones:

"Ignoring Lindsay's 'house rules' is, frankly, rude - and using the comments area to post personal attacks beggars belief."

I guess your powers of belief are rather easily beggared, Duncan. In any case, I can hardly be held responsible for the behavior of people like Gomez and Winefield.

Bayne intones further:

"Perhaps, if you object so strongly to Lindsay's approach . . . ."

But, Duncan, I don't object to it! Whatever gave you the idea that I did?

Admittedly, I expected to be tossed out on my ass after posting my little joke near the top of this thread. But, somewhat to my surprise, Linz seems to have recognized it for what it was -- a joke -- and restrained any impulse he may have felt to toss me out. Frankly, I admire that show of restraint. It's something you'd certainly never see from Joseph Rowlands. As a result, I've posted nothing since then that could possibly be taken by anyone as an attack on Linz or his "approach." And I submit that if you take a look at all my posts since the day I joined the group, along with the replies they've attracted, you'll find that my opponents and critics have been much ruder to me than I've been to any of them.

JR

Personally, I don't mind Riggenbach posting here, so far at least. He reminds me of those two old gits who sit griping in the balcony in the Muppet Show. He's isn't hiding anything and he isn't out to impress, both of which are more important qualities than whether or not he's "polite" in my view.

And anyway, I can't take his barbs seriously, & some of them are pretty damn funny in a sarcastic old bastard sort of way.

... in particular:

Remember you are guests in Linz’s house, enjoying his hospitality for free. Do not presume to tell him how to run this site or SOLO. If you don’t enjoy being in his house … well, there is no one forcing you to stay.

Ignoring Lindsay's 'house rules' is, frankly, rude - and using the comments area to post personal attacks beggars belief.

Perhaps, if you object so strongly to Lindsay's approach, you'd be so kind as to direct us to your lovingly created online Objectivist forum, which you've spent years of blood, sweat and tears creating, promoting, supporting and guiding? You know, the one you find so easy to run that you have the time to pop in here to periodically criticise the way Lindsay runs his?

Yesterday, I requested that someone be moderated as he came charging into the Illinois forum, insulting me and other people on a personal level. I don't need this. Is any action being taken at all?

Kat

Robert-
I think you overestimate the size of his bag.

Observe Jeff Riggenbach well dear reader, he is the perfect personification of the Blivit effect.

Blivit (bli'-vit) n. Slang. "Ten gallons of shit in a five gallon bag."

Response not bothered with out of contempt for Robert Winefield.

Response deleted out of respect for this site.

I don't think that would work, Andre. Instead of eight mildly offensive posts you'd end up with four vicious screeds. Besides, there are one or two here that like to post ad infinitum, ad nauseam :-| Just let the marketplace of ideas prevail.

     I have one rather mechanical but perhaps helpful suggestion for SOLOPassion "Guidelines for Posters." It's been my observation that just about all the personal acrimony and hard feelings on the previous SOLO -- as well as everywhere, really -- seems to come about on those l-o-n-g discussion threads (above 50 or 100, say). Maybe it should be suggested that people try to confine themselves to only 3 or 4 (fairly substantive) comments per topic or article.

                                                                                                                                                 If you can't make your point or win the argument by then, then you probably need to conclude that the other person lacks the requisite intelligence and/or virtue to understand and see it your way. It may even be -- god forbid! -- that you yourself lack the intelligence and virtue to see that the other guy is correct (this has never happened to me, by the way ). Either way you should probably just give up, and wait for the next time this topic resurfaces in some guise. It usually isn't long! Then try a slightly different approach on this slightly different topic or article. Even if a person is very respectful and polite (in his own mind), any comment beyond 3 or 4 per subject probably constitutes passive-aggression and badgering.    

Ah, Jody, I've missed your scintillating wit.

JR

Jeff your intellectual heir could be a dung beetle.

"If you’re a self-important grandstander, poseur, attention-seeker or blowhard monologuer who knows it all, contemplate the possibility that this might not be the place for you."

So, then, Linz, you'll be resigning as administrator and head honcho of the new site?

Just wondering.

JR

Remember you are guests in Linz’s house, enjoying his hospitality for free. Do not presume to tell him how to run this site or SOLO. If you don’t enjoy being in his house … well, there is no one forcing you to stay.

I've been on dozens of internet forums and mailing lists where the owner doesn't have the nerve to make it clear that the members are guests. I'm glad you were willing to make this clear, Linz; too many people aren't willing to stake a claim to their own territory and defend it.