Re: What's On-Topic for BayCHI Discussions?

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On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Greg Austin <[email protected]>wrote:

> Fastest off-topic? 2nd-person singular address. Clearly, "my personal
> sanity" is not the topic at hand.
>
> Topic: Whether political participation is an appropriate posting for
> an open forum hosted from a science-based organization.
>
> I claim that it is not; that to solicit participation from BayCHI
> members for HHS's information technology project is purely a political
> move--therefore, this forum is the wrong venue. Further, if HHS
> persists in legislating against all possible competition in
> healthcare, then it is imperative that those who are being targeted in
> this forum be made aware that alternatives to that broken top-down
> system exist--that usability science is NOT subject to human
> authority--is guided only by research and conclusions.
>
> Those of us who have spent our lives working on this project are
> awaiting The System's failure so we can help rebuild it correctly.
>
> Greg
> On Jan 11, 2011, at 10:48 AM, Steve Williams wrote:
>
> > I'm a BayCHI volunteer.  I'm not the moderator of BayCHI
> > Discussions.  In fact, BayCHI Discussions is not moderated (except
> > that job postings are discouraged).  We're fortunate that the CHI
> > community knows how to keep on-line discussions healthy.
> >
> > But rest assured that I and other BayCHI volunteers read every
> > message to BayCHI Discussions.  If a discussion starts to go
> > seriously off-track, we'll take action.
> >
> > As such, it's probably best for subscribers to IGNORE message they
> > believe is an off-topic.  To do so will only generate discussion
> > about that dispute, not about CHI.  BayCHI Discussions is a low-
> > volume list, so it should not be difficult to simply ignore such
> > messages.
> >
> > Again, this is not BayCHI policy, just my opinion from decades of
> > participating in on-line forums.
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