Author: Terry Presgrove
Date: 11:36:58 07/24/99
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On July 24, 1999 at 14:08:07, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On July 24, 1999 at 01:58:21, KarinsDad wrote: > >>I'm sure 90% of the membership would not have been outraged. I never once said >>that it was an outrageous post. I said that it was inappropriate. And in my very >>first post on the subject, I said that I probably would not have deleted it >>myself, but that Bruce was perfectly within his right as moderator to do so. >> >>there > >You would have waited for the complaint, which would have happened, and then >deleted it, right? > >bruce Burce, That was not my point at all. If the proper mechanism had been in place you /I or whoever was at the helm would not have found themselves in the quandry you did. Your were between a rock and a hard place I've been there and done that myself on many occasions. Its time to stop trying to put the blame on anyone and address the need for a cohesive moderator policy whereby whoever is on duty doesn't have to squirm a little before they hit that delete button on one of their fellow moderators. The truth is you were in a position that no matter what you did would bring critizism. The fault lies with the current lack of guidelines for Moderators dealing with themselves. TP
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