Originally Posted by
JustPeachy
No, Pancho,
that was NOT what was going on with Carlos. While he was posting newbie questions out on the forums, he was
simultaneously PM'ing the female members half to death, trying to get pics and personal information. This is a
prime example (but certainly not the only one!) of the blind men and the elephant phenom. You didn't see that, so
he was a poor little innocent being picked on by the big bad schoolyard bullies.
Which brings me to the rest of
my point. If the mods are going to act as censors, then this is going to be a very different kind of board than what
I think you have in mind. I've seen posts I found personally offensive left up, but as was stated earlier, Oscar
rips down whatever HE doesn't like. I'm not picking on Oscar in particular, but simply using an example already
given here. I'm not even going to bother going into the details. It's just not worth it. It's up to me to decide
what I will or won't read, what I will or won't take seriously, what does or doesn't amuse me at any given
moment.
The problem is that we're travelling on an assumption that the mods in general have some psychic
ability to determine what is or is not offensive enough to your entire audience to delete, what is or is not an
ordinary conversational flow. So, taking keyboard firmly in hand, they slice and dice, and then complain that they
have done it?? Someone used the word "schoolyard". But I didn't see anyone use the word "schoolmarm".
You
could be reactive, or proactive. Did it ever occur to you guys that perhaps a better way to handle a general tone of
conversation you may not favor might be to start some threads you do like? Present some real questions? Do some
interesting experiments and studies and post your own reports? Discuss a paper you have read on the subject of
pheromones? In other words, rather than taking a negative and punitive action - which generally only serves to
annoy; take positive action intended to provide some positive leadership? I've only joined recently, but I did not
find the place unfriendly. OTOH - I can spell fairly decently, and I wasn't trying to cyber with everyone on the
board. (Which, BTW, became a joke on the public part of the forum that you probably didn't get because you were
only a party to some of the backend exchanges with another poor "innocent".)
I get what you're saying, Bruce.
But when your friend comes over and maybe has a couple too many beers and gets a little loud, the usual course of
action is to humor him a little while putting the coffee on, because you already know he's a good guy when he
sobers up a little.
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