The Politics Of Gene Wolfe

Jeff Wilson · 19 Mar 2009, 11:59 · from 2009-March.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:59:20 -0500
Subject: (urth) The Politics Of Gene Wolfe
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Gwern Branwen wrote:
> If I may, it is threads like these that make me wish Urth had a 'List
> Sniper' along the lines of SL4's List Sniper: someone empowered to
> official declare a thread dead, and to enforce it by moderation &
> bans.
> 
> In this case, the thread has degenerated into boring and poorly-done
> discussions of a dozen topics in politics & ethics & sociology which
> have nothing to do with Gene Wolfe, and can only exasperate or
> embitter people.

Nobody's being forced to read any of this, my dear.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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