Author: Roger
Date: 22:25:25 02/07/00
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On February 08, 2000 at 00:47:39, Dann Corbit wrote: >On February 08, 2000 at 00:37:06, Roger wrote: > >>On February 07, 2000 at 17:37:36, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>> >>>I think that a general election about things like this is ridiculous, for the >>>same reason that there is no general election about a farm subsidy bill. The >>>amount of traffic generated is huge compared to the amount of general interest, >>>and you end up with a huge volume of material that nobody has time to read, and >>>who knows by what criteria the decision is made. Multiply this by a couple of >>>crises every few weeks and we'd have a giant mess. >>> >>>Consider that we have a giant mess already, as everybody throws in their own two >>>cents about every damned thing. >>> >>>bruce >> >>When I originally proposed it, Bruce, you pointed out that only two people have >>ever been banned, Sean and ChrisW. The infrequency of the banning was your >>argument why it should be handled by the moderators. But that argument cuts both >>ways. The infrequency of it is why it can also be handled by the people. >> >>The facts are that ChrisW has now given us empirical evidence that letting the >>moderators handle it DID NOT WORK. >> >>You and Dann and Karinsdad have done a great job moderating, there's no doubt >>about it. On the issue of ChrisW, however, the three of you have been >>wishy-washy. This is the only thing that turns and A+ job into an A-, in my >>opinion. So we need to take a look at this and figure out why ChrisW is >>consistenly able to invade our forum, when we supposedly have a mechanism in >>place to stop him, the Moderators. >> >>You mentioned criteria for decision-making. No one knows by what criteria Chris >>has been able to manipulate our forum, and it is rediculous that he has been >>able to do so. If Chris had been banned by the people, the moderators would KNOW >>absolutely that their job was simply to STOP this nonsense in its tracks, and >>Chris would know that he is unwanted by consensus, not by political maneuver. > >So your position here is that Chris continues to post because he is not >absolutely sure that he has been removed, or perhaps that if more people told >him so, he would be obliged to leave quietly and fade into the sunset. > >Excuse me while I feign mild shock and disbelief. > >A vote would have changed nothing. > Imagine that all your friends suddenly took a vote and told you that you were a dumbass and not to come around anymore. Imagine further that people you didn't even know, but who had observed your behavior, took a vote and they didn't want you either. I don't think you'd want to come around anymore. I wouldn't. Perhaps ChrisW is made of different stuff...I don't know...he definitely likes the attention. How many times have you KNOWN that if Person B would just IGNORE person A, a seemingly ceaseless flame war would DIE UTTERLY. But remember, I didn't say it would just be a VOTE ALONE. I said the moderators would act to ban following the vote. In this case, ChrisW's aliases would have been deleted as soon it became apparent that it was him. There would have been NO AMBIGUITY, no "call" to make, no personal relationships between programmers to interfere, because the moderators would simply be the executors of the people's will. He would have been OUTTA HERE!, as they say. >>As >>it was, the moderators ALLOWED this to go on. That was rediculous. > >For my case, I plead guilty as charged. Perhaps the next set of moderators will >do better. Nah, you're a good guy, Dann. I like you and what you stand for, and that goes for Bruce and Karinsdad, too. I don't blame you. I don't blame anybody really. You guys have done an awesome job. If you guys didn't have one flaw, folks wouldn't be able to tell that you guys were really human. ;) > >Your voting idea has no merit at all. It won't accomplish anything useful. It >will create a huge workload and cause an enormous set of problems that don't >exist now. > >Just my opinion. I could be wrong. I prefer the voting idea to allowing someone to repeatedly come in here under an alias and persistently abuse our forum. I'll take those problems over the status quo. Could be that the greatest utility of the voting idea is to get the moderators to act consistently with regard to ChrisW, and since only two people have ever been banned from CCC, that may just produce the same effect as if the voting idea had never existed at all. ;) Roger
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