Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 10:56:05 11/04/03
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On November 04, 2003 at 04:21:23, Andreas Guettinger wrote:
>On November 04, 2003 at 02:42:38, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>>
>>CT,
>>
>>You are a smart fellow, but you've missed the point here. First, this is not a
>>democracy, it's a representative republic; we elect people to govern, because it
>>is impractical for all of us to govern. (Note that your fiction of a democracy
>>is superceded by my fiction of a republic only in theory, since it's a private
>>commercial operation operating solely at the owner's discretion. As a practical
>>matter, however, it is a republic.) Second, there is no requirement to inform
>>or to gain the approval for official action. Third, the current mods have been
>>extremely lenient and unobtrusive up until now; while I find their current
>>action unusual given their heretofore laissez-faire approach (allowing all
>>manner of personal attacks, off-topic posts, gibberish, trolls, and other
>>assorted poor behavior), it's none of my goddamn business, or yours. Put
>>another way, a well-moderated board operates invisibly, which is to the
>>satisfaction of the majority.
>>
>>Will
>
>
>Hm, every representative who is elected to govern has to inform what he does,
>because we (the people) want to judge if he is doeing right. He can take
>whatever deciscion he thinks is right, but he has to do it visible for the ones
>that elected him. Things done secretly usually lead to big scandal and the
>removeal of this represenative,
>
>I think the moderators have any right to act what the find suits the forum the
>best, but they have to inform. (As we have no press, the best way would be
>through a forum post). Representatives that don't inform about their doing can
>not be judged if he did well or not. i.E. what happend to theis Spaminathan guy?
>Was he banned? Maybe the moderators already banned 50 people? We simply don't
>know, because we will not be imformed. Maybe this will be my last post? Who
>knows?
>
>:-)
>regards
>Andy
I 100% agree with you.
Christophe
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