Author: jonathon smith
Date: 15:06:48 05/06/99
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On May 06, 1999 at 18:03:04, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On May 06, 1999 at 17:53:17, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>I don't feel at all bad about any of the cases where I asked for a post to be >>deleted, or asked for a member to be banned. I did the best I could with that >>job and I don't have anything to be embarassed about. >> >>This place is not anarchic, it's something that is built into its charter, and >>that's fine with me. >> >>The situation now is nuts. What has happened, I believe, is that since this >>current group was elected, Steve added a feature that allows any moderator to >>delete any post. > >:-))))) > >Aha !! > >>Previously we had to ask Steve, which inconvenienced him, or inconvenienced Tim, >>or both. There were periods, like at night, where we could do nothing, because >>nobody was awake to do the deleting. >> >>This was inconvenient, stressful, and slow, but it also served as a built-in >>check. You couldn't just delete something and fail to tell anyone. At least >>one other person knew about it, and since there is no sensible reason not to CC >>the other moderators, typically we all knew about it, and if there was a >>problem, someone could say something. >> >>The situation now is simply ghastly. It's the difference between being handled >>according to a system with at least some checks built into it, and being dragged >>off to the gulag at three in the morning. > > >:-))))))) > > >>bruce > >>PS: The first guy to be banned here was banned at your insistence, so I don't >>know what you mean by "you guys". > >:-)))))) > >And it was still right to ban him. :-))) No. That was the singular error. Chris Whittington
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