Author: KarinsDad
Date: 21:20:40 01/14/99
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On January 14, 1999 at 22:30:49, Robert Hyatt wrote: [snip] > >deleting things helter-skelter isn't going to cut it, IMHO. I am not going to >waste a lot of time trying to answer technical questions here, and then have to >continually go back and check on them to see if something was deleted because >I wasn't quite polite enough. IE an audit trail is needed. Because the >moderators work for 'us', just as when I was a moderator I worked for 'you'... >and it will avoid a lot of suspicion and distrust if everyone 'knows' what is >going on (or not going on). I had a moderator make a "not politically correct" remark about me this week and when I responded in a polite, humorous and artistic, but justly deserved manner, he quickly removed both my posting and his remark. He conceded in an Email later to me that he could understand how his comment was offensive. One suggestion I have is to Email the posts back to the original poster (I was somewhat disappointed that my work of art was not read by anyone and I cannot even Email it to a select few people here). This would enable a technical or other informative message to be re-posted by the original author and at the same time, the moderator could indicate why the posting was removed to the author (to allow correction). Also, if the reason for the deletion wasn't made public, then it would minimize the ton of posts on "why is this a reason for deleting a post?". I think that the moderators are doing a good job and if the author has a real problem with the reason, then (s)he can take it up with all of the moderators via Email. But as a general rule, we as adults (mostly) are intelligent enough to know when we step over the line. The important part of this is that mo messages get dropped on the floor and people would not need to re-check their postings. Just a thought :) Happy Hunting! KarinsDad
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