Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 00:07:44 09/02/99
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On September 02, 1999 at 02:31:24, KarinsDad wrote: >On September 01, 1999 at 19:07:27, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >[snip] > >Why? Maybe because deletions >>are a public fact and non-deletions are not. If demands of deletions are made >>privately, we cannot know that they existed and were rejected.We only know about >>them when actually are accepted and a post is deleted. Then we receive -certain >>people, specially- only one kind of signal. May I suggest that from time to time >>you explicit why a demand of deletion was rejected? Perhaps signals could >>equilibrate that way and people who like to scrutinize and punish what they does >>not like could feel that there is not an open field of hunting for them. >>Cheers >>Fernando > >Fernando, > >Although on the surface, this sounds like a good idea, I do not think it really >is. My reasoning is as follows: > >1) If people Email the moderators, they get feedback one way or another. Hence, >if a person wants feedback, s/he should Email the moderators as opposed to >posting a message. > >2) I think people here can understand that if a person posts "this should be >deleted" and it isn't, that the moderators did not agree. However, if a >moderator explained why that did not occur, even occasionally, then moderation >threads about deletion would be starting up almost every week. I do not want to >read that kind of stuff a lot and I doubt you do either. I don't read every post and I don't intend to. Some topics are uninteresting to me and I will not necessarily read threads regarding those topics. So if someone posts a complaint about a thread, they shouldn't expect that I'll read it, and they shouldn't just assume that no response from a moderator means that the moderators didn't agree with their complaint. People can write whatever they want, but if someone wants attention from a moderator, they should use moderator email, and they get bonus points for including a URL to the post they are complaining about, if they are complaining about a specific post. I read every moderator email, and if there has been no response from another moderator I will respond within a few minutes after I read the mail, and I read my mail way too much. So members can be assured that if they express a concern in that manner, that it will not be swept under the carpet. bruce >3) A person who Emails the moderator may be shy or may be a person who just >reads and doesn't post often. Just because you and I are quite willing to write >down whatever comes into our minds and we may not care who knows it, it does not >mean that everybody is willing to do that. I consider the Emails to the >moderators requesting a deletion to be a private communication between a >concerned member of the forum and that person's main recourse to moderation. If >the reason for that request is correct within my judgement, I will delete the >post. If not, it should not matter to anyone else that a person asked me to look >into it. > >We are mostly intelligent people here. We should know by now that deletion is a >task that is undertaken relatively infrequently around here and that it is done >mostly in an attempt to head off controversy. If a post is really bad, it gets >deleted. If a bunch of people are offended by a post, there is a good chance >that it will be deleted. If nobody complains about a given post, it is extremely >rare that it gets deleted. > >KarinsDad :)
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