[FRIAM] Fwd: ABM

Douglas Roberts doug at parrot-farm.net
Tue Jun 5 15:02:19 EDT 2007


So, I guess the question then would be this:  Does a post that generates a
thread that is 54 messages long and counting always qualify as as a flame,
or only under certain conditions (i.e. Roberts started/contributed to the
thread).

Black.  White!   Black. No, White!
Wrong.  Am not!  Are too!

--Doug

On 6/5/07, Robert Holmes <robert at holmesacosta.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/5/07, Glen E. P. Ropella <gepr at tempusdictum.com> wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> > Saying some thing _can_ be an impediment is very different from saying
> > that it is _always_ an impediment.
>
>
>
> Well there's your problem Glen - you're trying to introduce conditionals
> and realistic shades of grey when this group is more comfortable with
> absolutes and black and white. For example, the FRIAM approved form would be
> "Doug Robert's posts always lead to a flame war", not "Doug Robert's
> comments sometimes lead to a flame war"
>
> Robert
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