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Forum moderation and wild conspiracies.

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Anonymous:

--- Quote ---On 2006-01-15 13:36:00, Anonymous wrote:

"The danger in moderating a forum like this one is the moderator will tend to consider posts they dont like to be "spam" and delete them. This is not a position that can be objective in my opinion, unless the moderator is brought in and has no opinion either way on the subject. We all know how Deborah feels about this issue, so I feel she cannot be objective. Not that there is anything wrong with that necesarilly, I just feel she will have a hard time being objective because of her opinions on this issue."

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You are 100% correct.

Antigen:
Well, I'm willing to try it and find out. Greg moderates the Seed forum and it seems like a pretty balanced representation. I dunno. I sort of agree that it's very, very hard to be objective, even when you do have a pretty accurate idea of what the author is talking about. So often, you just don't. Take that anal sex thread that sprouted up in some unrelated discussion. All combatants were actually friends pranking each other and havin' a good ole time. It was not a brawl at all, but something more like homage to Howard Stern or something.

I'd tread very lightly w/ that delete key. But that's just me. We'll see how it goes, eh? If ya hate it, can't stand it, well... see my sig.
It continues to amaze me to talk to law students -- college
graduates all and smarter than the average bear -- who will
seriously tell me about how dangerous mj is and how it
destroys the lives of those who use it and who, in the
very next sentence, will tell me how they and their
friends -- now CPAs, engineers, med students -- used
pot regularly through high school and college.  And
they don't see the contradiction between these statements.

We're not just talking ignorance here -- we are talking
deep down, serious, religious indoctrination.


--Buford C. Terrell, Professor of Law, South Texas College of Law
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Antigen:
Oh, one other thing. Moderating a discussion is just a chore. It doesn't endow the moderator w/ any elevation of status or anything. It's just something that some folks think needs to be done. I rather disagree most of the time, but then I may well be wrong. Matt's still the nominal moderator of the Elan forum. He does pop in once in awhile, but doesn't seem to do a lot of editing, least not that I hear about anyway. I would have let someone else moderate that one (w. Matt's permission, of course) if I could have found someone I thought was up to it. I couldn't. So I made a seperate forum for Elanians who thought they were better than the rest. Predictably enough, it died of neglect.

Ok, that's a couple other things.
The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God.
--Freidrich Nietzsche, German philosopher
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Antigen:
Oh yeah, and one other thing. If people post anon, then they havn't given consent to bust them out on it. You might bait them, pursuede them to cop to it. But it would be a tactical error to bust them publicly w/o their consent. If you do that, they'll likely go away AND whine about how you've wronged them.


Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
--Napoleon Bonaparte, French emperor
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Anonymous:
Ginger, where is that anal sex argument thread, It made me laugh so hard!! Can you find it??

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