Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 18:29:44 07/22/99
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On July 22, 1999 at 21:24:10, Phil Dixon wrote: >On July 22, 1999 at 20:12:33, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >> >>On July 22, 1999 at 19:28:18, Mark Young wrote: >> >>>I never did understand the moderation representation on CCC. We vote for three >>>moderators, but instead of having two of the three moderators agreeing to delete >>>a post, we have three three kings that do as they will when they see a post they >>>think should be deleted. This approach kills the representation of the mass of >>>CCC. Not a very logical way to represent the voters. >>> >>>Under the circumstances of how the moderators represent the voters I understand >>>and agree with your reasons for resigning. As it stands now if one moderator can >>>delete posts at will without the consent of at least one other moderator, this >>>leave you unable to represent your position and view as moderator that you ran >>>and were elected on by the voters of CCC to represent. >> >>It depends upon how you see the job of moderator. I view post deletion as a >>police function, mainly. You wouldn't expect the cops to get together and vote >>before they arrested someone, would you? >> >>The voting process has no hierarchy or decision process built in. We elect >>three moderators but we don't give them any framework for dealing with each >>other. My first point of business was to try to establish a framework, but we >>never got together and did it. >> >>I think this is only the second time that something was deleted, it has been >>mostly quiet so far. >> >>I don't think that moderators are above the charter, and I will react the same >>way to a moderator post as to any other post. If I had seen any other member >>post that I would have deleted it. >> >>bruce > >I don't think any one person should be allowed to impose their guidelines, >standards, etc. on the rest of us here at the CCC. I don't believe it was ever >set up with a ONE MAN show in mind. No matter who it is. Alright. Let's talk practical stuff, like I in fact did in my "platform" thing. Someone who you have never heard of writes a post with the title: "F--- you" The content of the post is: "No really, f--- you". That's all, but of course the hyphens in the post are of course not hyphens, and I would ordinarily spell out the words, but given the present climate I think people would probably jump on me. You run across this post at 12:38 a.m., as you are getting ready to go to bed. What do *you* do about this, as one of three moderators? bruce
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