Author: Thorsten Czub
Date: 15:03:04 05/06/99
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On May 06, 1999 at 17:53:17, Bruce Moreland wrote: >I don't feel at all bad about any of the cases where I asked for a post to be >deleted, or asked for a member to be banned. I did the best I could with that >job and I don't have anything to be embarassed about. > >This place is not anarchic, it's something that is built into its charter, and >that's fine with me. > >The situation now is nuts. What has happened, I believe, is that since this >current group was elected, Steve added a feature that allows any moderator to >delete any post. :-))))) Aha !! >Previously we had to ask Steve, which inconvenienced him, or inconvenienced Tim, >or both. There were periods, like at night, where we could do nothing, because >nobody was awake to do the deleting. > >This was inconvenient, stressful, and slow, but it also served as a built-in >check. You couldn't just delete something and fail to tell anyone. At least >one other person knew about it, and since there is no sensible reason not to CC >the other moderators, typically we all knew about it, and if there was a >problem, someone could say something. > >The situation now is simply ghastly. It's the difference between being handled >according to a system with at least some checks built into it, and being dragged >off to the gulag at three in the morning. :-))))))) >bruce >PS: The first guy to be banned here was banned at your insistence, so I don't >know what you mean by "you guys". :-)))))) And it was still right to ban him. :-)))
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