Author: Todd Durham
Date: 16:14:37 05/06/99
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On May 06, 1999 at 18:00:28, jonathon smith wrote: >On May 06, 1999 at 17:53:17, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >> >>On May 06, 1999 at 17:18:47, jonathon smith wrote: >> >>>On May 06, 1999 at 17:12:18, Bruce Moreland wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>On May 06, 1999 at 15:41:11, Greg Lazarou wrote: >>>> >>>>>Yeap, >>>>> >>>>>a) Somebody puts up a thread on starting a campaign to get Bob back here - great >>>>>idea I think! >>>>>b) A "moderator" takes upon himself to explain how he will not "beg" for Bob to >>>>>come back and provides other excuses and justifications for past actions. >>>>>c) Bob comes back to explain his position and gets further attacked by the >>>>>"moderator" >>>>>d) Another moderator jumps in and erases the whole thread and any subsequent >>>>>mention to it >>>>>e) I'm sure the next step is to erase this whole thread too >>>>> >>>>>Great "job" guys!!! With Bob and Ed leaving this is not going to be the same... >>>>>I'd think the moderator's job would have been to beg these types of people to >>>>>not give up on this place. >>>>> >>>>>Greg >>>> >>>>They may start erasing entire people soon. >>>> >>>>bruce >>> >>>You guys started the 'erasing'. >>> >>>Chris Whittington >> >>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. >> >>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". > >Right. > >Except I changed my mind, and told you it would continue with eating its own >children. As all revolutions always do. The revolutionaries lack wisdom. They're >always too young and inexperienced. > >You got credit for baling out earlier, and Matthias for baling out at the very >start. > >One by one everybody pulled out, or got pushed. > >Finito. I'm relatively new here and have no idea who was banned earlier (or rather, I don't know who all of the people who are banned are) or why, but at least some of the people who were 'banned' seem to keep popping up. Apparently with 'cyber-death' comes cyber-resurrection.' Todd Durham
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