Author: Paul Onstad
Date: 07:08:33 06/21/98
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>This is just my opinion Bruce, and I understand your concerns and >have them too, but I think we should simply delete any post that >is clearly abusive and leave it at that. There are 3 of us to keep >each other honest. I personally don't see it as being more complicated >than that. >- Don Ah, the problems of moderation... This is a moderated newsgroup so that has to mean something, but then comes the nasty fact of applying it to policy. Before rgc, my experience was Compuserve and its Chess Forum. CSi was far from being as intrusive (ie, as aol has been made out to be) but on a few of the very few occasions when messages were deleted, it could create an uproar. It even lead to disagreements in staff and resignations. To delete or not to delete is a very serious question indeed. CSi had a policy that if abusive posts regarded staff, they would normally not be deleted. (The staffers were supposed to be tough enough to take it.) OTOH, one could not string a long series of f*** words together and expect the post to survive. (While difficult to believe, this only happened once or twice.) The creative, or implied, use of the same words might be tolerated (if used sparingly.) The major problem with deletions is that other members hear about it. They then wonder what was so terrible that it had to be removed from their sight. Imaginations take over in uncomplimentary ways. Some messages will meet nearly everyone's definition of complete inappropriateness but for anything short of that, there will be problems. The second policy of moderation is membership. If someone, posts abuse; is privately warned; and continues to do so, then revocation might be the answer. If these messages were _not_ deleted then when So-And-So disappeared, we would have the message trail, and all likely understand why. I hope! -Paul
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