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Subject: Re: Moderate Bean Counting

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 11:32:02 07/02/00

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On July 02, 2000 at 12:19:06, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On July 02, 2000 at 11:57:46, Pete Galati wrote:
>
>>All this would do is provide interesting data.  But the amount of reads that a
>>post gets isn't very relavent to it's suitability to be in the forum.  The real
>>problem here is moderation for the sake of moderating.
>>
>>By _now_ I've come to realize that almost nothing needs to be moderated.  The
>>place basically moderates itself.  In anther thread, I just asked James
>>Robertson if he was going to release his program Insomniac, but blsss thought it
>>sounded like I was attacking him about that, so he spoke up and said something.
>>No moderator was needed, blass stepped in and said something.
>>
>>A _large_ percent of what these guys do isn't needed.  If they'd do less, most
>>of their problems would go away, and everything that was too off-topic to be
>>here would just expire and sweep itself under the carpet.  No bean counter
>>needed.  The last thing we need is an ego feeding or crushing bean counter so we
>>can have people writing posts designed to get more read counts.  Because I'm
>>sure I could adjust the way I title the subject of my posts to get more people
>>to read them if I wanted, that's not very hard to do.
>
>I don't know if I agree with you, but you sound like an excellent moderator
>candidate.  The whole election thing is coming up soon, I guess.
>
>bruce

I'd have to steal Mogen's platform for running because I liked his ideas.  I
wouldn't have made a bad politician because I usually try to agree with whoever
I'm talking to.  I'd have to tone up my backpedaling muscles before I ran.

Pete



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