Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 16:22:43 07/24/99
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On July 24, 1999 at 14:36:58, Terry Presgrove wrote: >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 I think I see your point, Terry, but I don't think that a dirty joke requires a second thought, no matter who posts it. I think the fact of Fernando being a moderator is a "red herring" in this situation. He posted an off-topic (by any definition of the term) message. *Anyone* in this forum can expect such a message to be deleted. No explanation from the moderator who did the deleting is needed. Andrew Williams
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