Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 00:11:17 05/11/99
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On May 07, 1999 at 18:10:00, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On May 07, 1999 at 16:27:55, KarinsDad wrote: > >>On May 07, 1999 at 15:26:04, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>[snip] >>> >>>There is no need for more process baggage to be dumped on the moderators. It is >>>enough to remind them that: >>> >>>1) They should behave with some sensitivity toward those who elected them. >>>2) Actions such as post deletion be accompanied by appropriate email. >>>3) They should attempt to achieve some concensus within their own group. >>> >>>I think that would do it. >>> >>>bruce >> >>Bruce, >> >>What you say sounds reasonable, but not everyone on this forum is reasonable. >>What do the moderators do for your #2 when they decide to delete an entire >>thread. Do they email everyone involved? And then we still have the same >>problem of threads being deleted and everyone did not read them and everyone has >>an opinion, etc. etc. etc. ad nauseum. > >Deleting an entire thing is a brutal thing to do, but I think that it is >probably the right thing to do sometimes. > >In this case everybody should get mailed. > >And if that means that the moderator has to sit there doing copy-paste of email >addresses and writing one email addressed to everyone whose post was deleted, >then that is what should get done. It's not that big a deal, the job is labor >intensive enough that the few times this will need to happen shouldn't cause >much increase in workload. > >It takes a while and is annoying to do, but it is better than the alternative, >which is to have some poor guy who wrote something sensible getting all confused >and perturbed. > >Just asking people to stop sometimes works, too. > >bruce I have received email from moderators (e.g. Will) when a thread was blown away in the past (e.g. some off-topic Fischer thread). The same message is sent to everyone who participated in the deleted thread. Dave
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