On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Gabin Kattukaran boon@vsnl.com wrote:
Forgive the top post. I'm working off a mobile device that doesn't allow it any other way.
Sigh.... How many and how long we will have to make exceptions?
I don't think you understood Sachin's mail. It seemed to indicate that the majority don't care about the extremely infrequent use of expletives. And probably care less about the conduction of a poll to determine the course of action in the event of such an infrequent occurance. The whole execise seems a little juvenile.
I bag your pardon for "misunderstanding" Sachin's mail. Indeed, I am a bit weak in use of English language. :-(
Considering that you think this "exercise" a juvenile, can I "assume" that you have not voted in the poll?
If you voted, you made your choice.
If you didn't, you have lost your right to pass any judgment on the "exercise". If you think there were not enough options, you never asked.
It doesn't mean that they don't care about the list. It just means that there are more important things than a one-in-ten-thousand occurance.
How do you know other list members' opinion? Have you asked each member individually? Did you conduct an opinion poll? Did you do a survey of all/most members of the list?
Wouldn't it be simpler to let us know what is YOUR opinion rather then "assume" what opinions other members have?
Ofcourse all this would change if you put statistics about how many expletives have been used on this list during its lifetime. It may also help if you put up numbers that indicate what percentage of the list membership chose to vote in the first place. 36% could mean anything - even 3.6 people out of the 10 who chose to participate in the poll. Also, if you are so serious about that poll why do you choose to ignore the 41% that elected to boot the poster off the list?
Let me repeat myself, we can only go by the opinion of the people who BOTHERED TO VOTE. This is HOW democracy works.
-gabin
With regards,