[sdiy] Don't hit anybody where it hurts....

[Scott Gravenhorst]

Well, last I checked, the list is "synth-diy".  I saw that the 
post was something about a synth of some kind, but I can't 
recall seeing anything do-it-yourself in the post.  Am I wrong 
in my perception that diy means things like building, designing,
troubleshooting, fixing...  those sorts of things done 
"yourself"?  Maybe I don't get it, but posting art is probably
not what is meant by "synth-diy".  There are better places for
that, places where the audience expects and appreciates that.
Ah, but one can say that the unexpected nature of it was what
made it art in the first place.  If that's the case, then why
not appreciate finding a cockroach in the sandwich you just
bought at a restaurant?  Perhaps it was the chef's performance
art.  And I think that chef would have to expect the patron's 
obvious reaction, just as she should expect and appreciate the 
negative reaction she got for posting what she did.  

One might argue that the art was something she did herself.  
Fine.  But then aren't we faced with a meaningless list charter?

Grant Richter <grichter at asapnet.net> wrote:
>I didn't see anything in the group guidelines that forbids "arty" posts. I
>think it took a lot of guts to post here. It would seem English is not her
>primary language.
>
>Judging from the hostile response, there is no wonder that women artists
>don't post here.
>
>How about some hospitality, or at least tolerance? If you don't like the
>post contents, then don't respond.
>
>Just because some ones brain doesn't work like yours, does that make them a
>target?
>
>> 
>> Just repeatedly refresh her absurd website a few hundred times.  If we all
>> do that, ought to send her bandwidth bill skyrocketing.
>> 
>> We can call it our own "Internet performance art".
>> 
>> JSL
>> 
>> 
>

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