On Tuesday 19 June 2018 17:48:52 Mike Bird wrote:
On Tue June 19 2018 17:31:18 Felix Miata wrote:
One of my reasons to reply was to highlight the unending inane off-topic threads about coffee, chocolate & dinosaurs polluting this list and its archive. If dinosaurs are OK, then anything should go. I'd like to see OT stuff keep to a minimum or less.
Agreed. Neither coffee nor distorted anti-science videos have a place here.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/377-billion-year-old-fossils-stake-n ew-claim-oldest-evidence-life
Chatter can help build community but maybe someone could create a trinity-ot list so we can restore the s/n ratio here.
--Mike
Yeah, I think that we make these little offhand comments, but then it snowballs into something bigger, and soon there is an avalanche. Yet, maybe there is a place for that, since it helps us to know one another. Otherwise, it would be like talking to a customer service rep. All the same, there can be too much of a good thing, and a couple of our threads have dragged on past levity and silliness.
Maybe just an OT list, where we can get silly.
Bill