Discussion and Names

[Player]

Email, internet, etc, blah blah blah. We are innundated
with "information". This is a discussion group about
a game that we play because we enjoy it. We don't want
all the rest of the marketting, spam, and crap here.
Treat it as if we're in a room with real people, face
to face. Call it prudish, if you will, but anonymous
flamers and spammers and people screaming conspiracy
don't merit due regard. The world is full of screamers,
many of whose ideas or valid, but they're just giving
the majority of the world headaches.

Take a G7 meeting or World Bank conference. Are you at
the table, or outside wearing a balaklava and throwing
something foul at the security forces? (Don't presume
my sympathies in this example, by the way) It's the
same here.

Come on in, sit on down, introduce yourself, and join
the discussion, otherwise you're wasting your, and our,
time.

Thanks,

Brad Brunet (same name, over and over again...boring,
I know)

--- corsairs game 101 <corsairs101@...> wrote:
> >If you're not willing to put your name to your words,
> >they (and thusly, YOU) do not deserve to be listened to.
>
> Please elaborate. I do not understand why a true name must be known
> before
> the words can have meaning. Why do not sensible ideas carry their
> own
> value?
>
> Quick, who said, "In debate, the first to raise his voice in
> frustration, is
> usually the first that has run out of points to support his
> position".
>
> I don't know the name of the man. That does not change the fact that
> their
> is a lot of truth in the position.
>
> Is my opinion more valid simply because I attach my name to the
> comment.
> Are the words, or meaning of the words, somehow altered if signed
> with a pen
> name?
>
> >Is everyone on the planet on an egroup regarding Middle Earth
> >Games?
>
> But, anyone is eligable to join. I do not see the reason to attach
> points
> unrelated to any given game, to a player. After expressing the
> comments
> about the ranking system, it is possible that anyone seeing me in a
> game as
> a neutral, will assume I have joined the game to prove my point on
> how
> players can achieve high rankings by joining as neutrals and piling
> on one
> side.
>
> The point about the flaws in the system is just as valid, without
> creating
> misconceptions of my motivations for any future conflict I may find
> myself
> in.
>
> >Please get over it.
>
> Not until it is satisfactorily explained to me how the content of the
>
> message is altered by the attachment of a name.
>
> >Your input is welcome and
> >important to the discussion, but the venomous chip on your
> >shoulder reduces your insight to childish rubbish.
>
> That, or calling someone elses opinion "childish rubbish" instead of
> dealing
> with the content of the message, is in fact the childish rubbish.
>
> >Do enjoy your day, Darrell.
>
> You too. And may you spend more time contimplating the content of
> your next
> response, keeping the conversation away from emotive comments such as
>
> "chimps throwing dung" and "childish rubbish". How is the validity
> of the
> comment altered by the contents of a name of the sender?
>
> Your's truely,
> Alexander Hamilton
>
>