Author: Don Beal
Date: 10:28:52 11/18/98
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On November 18, 1998 at 05:26:06, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On November 17, 1998 at 19:04:15, James B. Shearer wrote: >> I see from posts to rgcc that Thorsten Czub (mclane) has been thrown out >>of CCC again. >> 1. I don't think people should just disappear. If someone is ejected I >>think the moderators should post a notice to that effect with whatever >>explanation they think appropriate (as they did the first time). > >It's hard to know what the members want, or what is appropriate. I like to >announce stuff, but I got complaints that too much bandwidth was being wasted >on moderator crap, and the posts seemed to start fights. I posted a message a while back suggesting we all accepted the judgement of the moderators without publicly debating each decision. I also said the moderators should do their work 'silently'. After that post I realised 'silently' was not the right word for my thoughts. Bruce is quite right that 'silently' would be horribly orwellian. What I really meant was 'unobtrusively'. I think that excluding (or restoring) posters should be accompanied by a short post from a moderator stating that the poster has been excluded and giving a _brief_ (preferably a single sentence - at most a short paragraph) summary of the reason. I was arguing against public debate, on the grounds that it re-introduces part of the problem that the existence of moderators solves. I was not arguing to exclude concise factual information about events. I also think opinion from any member about any aspect of moderation should be welcome at any time,_provided it is concise, non-repetitive, and non-inflammatory_. (BTW, non-inflammatory takes effort and can be REALLY hard: many people simply do not see the ways in which their statements will offend others. But non-inflammatory is necessary to avoid the kind of troubles we have seen recently.) Don Beal.
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