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From: Charles Henry czhenry@gmail.com To: Dafydd Hughes dafydd61@gmail.com Cc: pd-list@iem.at; mahatGma rabintrah mahatgma@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2012 6:36 PM Subject: Re: [PD] list etiquette
On 3/10/12, Dafydd Hughes dafydd61@gmail.com wrote:
And there are pretty widely accepted norms about language (I'm talking about agressive langage and expletives here) on the list, too, even if they're not written down, correct?
fuck no!
Didactic cursing doesn't violate the norm. But cursing (without provocation) at a new user who is asking for technical advice about Pd would violate the norm. If you do that you will get a very different response than you have here.
Pd expands boundaries of what is music and art. Why expect any boundaries on the list? The same norm you're expecting might not be shared by other people who use the list too.
Expanding boundaries implies boundaries.
I don't care for some things said on the list, but all you can really do is try to convince other people to see things your way. People just use etiquette on the list because they want to.
That's exactly how norms become widely accepted!
In the parent thread someone's entire argument was undermined by their use of etiquette, so I don't think everybody is using it just because they want etiquette.
-Jonathan
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