[governance] Mailing list shorthand

[Milton L Mueller]

Kieren:
This is funny, thanks! In the same spirit, let me propose to add another acronym to your list:

APE: Apologia by Paid Employees. 

These are recurrent posts by employees of institutions that come under criticism on this list, designed to protect and defend the institution and/or its policies. Lists that have too many APEs tend to break down after a while, as there is an imbalance between the volunteer civil society actors who can only sustain these dialogues in their spare time, and the professional, well-funded employees who derive their salaries from the taxes imposed on the public by the institution they defend. 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kieren McCarthy [mailto:kierenmccarthy at gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 5:09 PM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: [governance] Mailing list shorthand
> 
> I was going to ask if there are any rules of behaviour for this list, but
> then thought better of it.
> 
> Then I thought I might propose some. And definitely thought better of
> that.
> 
> So instead I have come up with a list of useful shorthand acronyms that
> could be used in place of silence. Excellence in use to be rewarded by a
> free drink from ICANN's general manager of public participation at an
> ICANN
> meeting of your choice.
> 
> 
> 
> AH - Ad Hominum attack. A list favourite and an excellent way of avoiding
> substantive discussion.
> 
> BS - Bait Served. To help highlight when someone is being specifically
> provoked into an angry response.
> 
> BT - Bait Taken. When someone is daft enough to respond to the BS.
> 
> CA - Circular Argument. For those emails that cover the same issue with
> the
> same points all over again.
> 
> CT - Conspiracy Theory. For use when someone offers dark mutterings
> without
> a drop of factual evidence.
> 
> NIA - Not ICANN Again. For when it all gets too much.
> 
> NAI - North American Ideology. Not to be confused with NIA. Particular
> useful when issues of access arise.
> 
> UN - Utter Nonsense. Not to be confused with the United Nations, which
> breeds it own particular type of nonsense.
> 
> WT - Wasting Time. When a decision is approaching deadline and the list
> goes
> off on a three-day tangent.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I would like to start off the process by officially labeling this message
> "BS".
> 
> 
> 
> Kieren
> 
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