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This article is from the Nordic countries
FAQ, by Antti Lahelma and Johan Olofsson, with numerous
contributions by others.
1.3.1 What sort of a group is it?
If you're interested in the Nordic countries, and don't like having
your mailbox littered up with messages from various mailing-lists,
soc.culture. nordic is probably the best choice for a discussion forum
you will find in the whole Internet. It is far from being perfect, of
course; but then, few Usenet newsgroups can be described by that
particular adjective.
You may find that discussions here are not always on as profound
topics as you might have hoped for, that certain threads never really
die even though every imaginable argument has been presented already
hundreds of times, that these threads may, if they coincide, suffocate
almost all other discussion in the newsgroup.
You will find that there are hotheads who preach absurd gospels and
cynics who perceive themselves as "net vets", considering it their
divine right to flame newcomers who happen to ask the wrong questions,
and that there is a good deal of US-bashing, Sweden-bashing,
Norway-bashing and Finland-bashing (but curiously no Denmark-bashing
:-), going on most of the time. If you've believed in the "official",
idealized picture of harmonious Nordic friendship, you may be badly
disappointed. We don't always act sensibly, we're not always nice to
each other, we can be tedious, nit-picky, boring, annoying,
quarrelsome, and in general quite stupid. Sometimes. But not most of
the time, I think. Read on.
One of the purposes of this FAQ is in fact to decrease the amount of
flaming and the frequency of the same old threads; if you're a
newcomer, please read through at least this part of the FAQ (the rest
is up to your tastes), and you may be able to avoid some of the most
common mistakes made by new SCNers (e.g. posting a flamy article
condemning Norwegian whaling, or taking part in the never ending
arguments about the position of the Finns and their language in
Sweden. :)
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