I appreciate the enthusiasm of everyone commenting on this site but I've decided to remove the Three Forks supporter comments from this blog. It's not that I want to stifle their right to speak, it's just that they have their own site to post to.
If you are a Three Forks supporter here is where you can go:
Three Forks Site: http://www.3forksalliance.org/
If you want to read constant bickering; go to the Go DeKalb site: http://godekalb.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8946&Itemid=2873
Our purpose is to give the supporters of the path a place to discuss it, calmly and rationally. If you try and encourage neighborhood division I will delete the post.
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It is good to see all of this enthusiasm for finishing the trail. I too think that it would be a waste to remove it at this point. I have also enjoyed reading the ongoing discussions on this blog.
ReplyDeleteI have checked out http://www.3forksalliance.org/ in the past and it is not really a place for users to comment on the material presented. Most of that material appears to be extremely anti-PATH. I believe that some of extremeness tainted the 3FA movement in a way that weakened what they where attempting to accomplish before construction on the trail even started.
Now that the moderator of this blog has decided to remove all anti-trail material and bring the blog to the same level as the 3FA, I believe its cause will be tainted in the same manner.
Any one-sided discussion is worthless as political ammunition. As a supporter of the trail I would never direct Jeff Radar or Kathy Gannon to this blog for them to see all the people wanting the trail complete. It is meaningless if you filter out all of the opposing view points.
Pick up any newspaper in the world and you will see all the grief and misery that extremist attitudes have brought us.
I agree with Brickman above about free discussion. I also wish the County did a better job with the planning of this project. It has been an unfortunate environmental as well as public relations (and legal) disaster.
ReplyDeleteBut DeKalb Development of the past 8 years is known more for its heavy-handedness and contempt for its citizens, and testing local code and State and Federal laws to the limit or beyond; than it is for its tact and inclusiveness.
I'd also like to state that on this Savespctrail blog I do see opposing views being included in the Comments sections which have not been deleted. So thank you Savespctrail for this.
I wish I could elucidate this balance to the 3FA group on their site, but I gave up on posting there long ago.
Brickman, you probably would not have been able to add to the 3FA material, anyway! I have attempted to post to the 3FA site with what I thought was helpful and objective information relating to past work in progress, but they appear to view and then cull posts before they go to general viewing by their group. Yahoo Groups allows this as an OPTION to its service -- and it seems this option is being used by 3FA to control its blog/internet group discussion. Another indicator of this is that when this option is not used by a Yahoo group, posts are viewable within minutes, not hours.
By the way, some might post anonymously here or there to avoid conflict with people who are prone to vengeful words against those who do not agree with them letter for letter.
So I also agree that extreme behavior results in isolation and skewed realities.
A one-sided conversation is not meaningless. It is a way for those of us who support the PATH to support one another. This isn't a newspaper and I don't see anywhere that its stated intention was to provide political ammunition. Its just that those in opposition keep shouting that no one supports this project and its good to be in the company - even in cyberspace - of people who share an opinion. It feels like fresh air to me.
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