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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I don't think it's elitist or childish to think, "couldn't we have just one discussion about piracy or copyright without [that jerk] spewing irrelevant nonsense all over the thread?"
I just don't think we have enough agreement on who the "that jerks" are, to use restrictions to make it work.
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Exactly. Ask Stonetools, Giggleton, and me who "that jerk" is, and you'll get three different answers. Do I want a thread without astroturfers and agents provocateur? Of course I do. But I don't want it so much that I think we should abandon the democratic nature of a forum like this one in order to obtain it.
There is, after all, always another option: Start a new forum and ban the people you don't like. If enough people think that mix of posters is superior to the one they have in MobileRead, they'll go there.