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Date Posted: 05:02:41 10/05/04 Tue
Author: an onlooker
Author Host/IP: 207.44.154.35
Subject: stress?
In reply to: Levi 's message, "niceness code" on 04:55:05 10/05/04 Tue

How many in your ever dwindling community would be truly offended by being addressed as morons?

None, I would say. But many of them surely feel the new Litkicks is treating them as morons.


>You're jumping to a big conclusion when you compare a
>website's operational policy to the literary opinions
>of the website's creators. Yes, of course, I respect
>numerous writers who were complete assholes (as many
>great writers were). I also know how to run a good
>community website, which requires stating a simple
>moderation policy and consistently enforcing it.
>Thus, the "niceness code" that is easy to remember and
>easy to understand. It gets the job done. I'm not
>necessarily always a nice guy in person either, just
>for the record.
>
>Maybe this explains why you are so persistent in
>trying to post obnoxious messages to community
>websites that don't want you around -- you believe you
>are following in the tradition of Bukowski? But
>Bukowski had charm, vision, depth. I think you're
>kidding yourself if you think there is a connection
>there.
>
>-- Levi
>
>
>>Gilgamesh, King of Uruk lived in about 2700, and the
>>legend is that many stories/myths were written from
>>that approx. date forwards, some of which became the
>>epic....
>>
>>Really, you are somehow obsessed with this
>>politeness-civility issue. When you read ( you do read
>>sometimes don't you?) your favorite novelists or
>>journalists or poets, do you judge them on whether
>>they are adhering to your "niceness code"?? Ever read
>>Mailer? He's one of the most violent writers I have
>>read, but some of his stuff is decent (Executioner's
>>Song), and occasionally the violence and obscenity is
>>essential. Violence, obscenity, crassness, injustice,
>>cruelty, nature red in tooth and claw: real writers
>>address those topics. Is Ellison's Invisible Man nice
>>and buddhistic? No. What about the Litkicks pantheon:
>>Bukowski? You think he was some peaceful polite dude?
>>I think not; nor were most of the other beats and
>>freaks you flount....

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