FcNext – The Lost Generation of Freecycling
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Copyright 2008 by Nexteritis. All rights reserved. For permission to use, contact:
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FcNext, The Lost Generation of Freecycling
Nothing exciting here (although some Nexters sure seem excited about us … too bad we don’t get paid for writing our stuff … that would be too “Freesharing-like”). Just some typical nexterisms and yahooisms to talk about …
1. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fcnext/message/24702
Nexter No_blip can’t tell the difference between copyright fair use and the TOS violation involved in swiping a post from a group’s private, restricted archive for publication in a public archive. That’s okay. Yahoo! knows the difference, and executed their Notice of Infringement and FcNext post deletions accordingly.
We look forward to the Nexteritis blog being quoted, legally and responsibly in a fair use context, with proper attribution (just a valid hyperlink to the source will do … just to keep things simple enough for Nexters).
We also appreciate the publicity we’re getting through their posting a link to us, beginning with thanks to Andy for that, since FcNext censorship wouldn’t allow us to post our views in their so-called “unmoderated” group under their limited (and twisted) notion of “free speech,” complicated by their inability to cope with dissent from people willing to put serious effort into it. But they ARE mostly students of TFN, where they learned some things about how to run discussion groups and deal with controversy, though apparently little or nothing about moderating a discussion.
2. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fcnext/message/24703
Paul Hurteau (proudly hailing from Auburn, MA) thinks it’s wrong for anti-Nexters to publish their writing under a nom de plume, but doesn’t accuse comrade “no_blip” of any such thing. Honor among blips and all that. Apparently he also subscribes to that school of thought saying, “If I say it, it must be true.” And conversely, “If I say it ain’t true, it can’t be true.” Most folks of that type also tend to think that if they say it often enough and loud enough, that makes it true. George W. Bush got most Americans and Congress to buy into an illegal and immoral war that way, so I guess if it’s good enough for him, it might work among Nexters. George is also famous for a line in a speech to the United Nations: “You are either with us, or you are with the terrorists.” That kind of polarized thinking works for Nexters, too. No gray areas, no middle ground, no alternatives. You either swallow their propaganda hook, line and sinker, or you are evil. Drink the kool-aid and go to Nexter Heaven. For each TFN group you kill, you get seventeen virgins in the afterlife.
3. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fcnext/message/24704
Nexter moderator (only in word, not deed or skill) Judy is still harping on the silly notion of reporting something about Nexteritis to Yahoo!, presumably because she can’t decipher the TOS, or maybe she just thinks it’s fun to tell people to file unjustified and unsustainable complaints (or false ones). I guess it does sting a little to know so many posts have been deleted from FcNext for TOS violations, and to dread the likelihood of it happening again.
4. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fcnext/message/24705
“Kettle” No_blip, being the expert statistician, believes that a 14% random sample is insufficient to come to any reasonable conclusions in a survey of the type done on Freesharing. Of course, the method of randomization was published, and anyone can verify that the report did contain a random sample, but no Nexter would do that much work about anything so intensive, even things they get so excited about. It’s easier to just rant than do any serious investigation of facts.
Still, it is understandable that some folks of limited faculties might suspect that 14% isn’t a big enough random sample. Some day we’ll double it by adding another 14% of the list to the survey.
Actually, we’ve already done that. Some time ago, we surveyed about 300 of the entries in the Freesharing directory (more than a third of the directory size at the time), just starting at the top of the list and moving down through it. The results were worse for Burke’s image. But that’s outdated now, and it did not provide a proportionate cross-section of the entire country.
Following Andy’s psychology, criticizing Freesharing should be a positive thing, because criticism can help show the way to improvement. He might be onto something there, but it takes someone capable of receiving and acting on constructive criticism in an honorable way. We’re not expecting Burke to suddenly start applying anything like quality controls to his directory. It would cut his link count in half, and maybe reduce his Google hit rating, and affect his income. Money talks.
5. King James English-speaking Statistician Kettle No-blip also writes about Nexteritis with a biblical twist, this matter being of religious-scale consequence to them. Not surprising from a cult to invoke religious overtones on things.
6. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fcnext/message/24707
Typical of Nexters, Hurteau reads words that are not there, referring to someone else having written the word “most” when they did not. (The phrase he apparently refers to is, “the other 90% either ignoring it or long gone bouncing.”) But it would be interesting to know how many FcNext member accounts are bouncing, if one could get an honest answer to such a question. We hope it’s not many, because we do like our blog link being published to as many Nexters as possible.
Curious that serious dissidents and opponents to core Nexter attitudes and behaviors are not allowed to post in FcNext, but FcNext postings still give so much attention to the writings of those same dissidents and opponents, notwithstanding those vocal unmoderated Nexters’ lack of substance and cogency, as usual.
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