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| Thread ID: 83706 | 2007-10-10 08:12:00 | Please grow up | somebody (208) | PC World Chat |
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| 600075 | 2007-10-11 21:47:00 | But the intention is to keep the forum a place where people of all viewpoints and um ... emotional levels, can feel reasonably comfortable. And that isn't possible if you take the breaks off and turn it into bar room brawl because that isn't an atmosphere that many people will want It works well, Which is all the people on the other side of the coin are saying. Us "rabble rousers" aren't trying to force our narrow minded views on others. We are just hangin out comfertable in our tolerance. I personally enjoy reading nearly everybodies views and opinions. every dish needs a few flavours. Although WolfForest22 is obviously looking for a bit of attention.:lol: |
Metla (12) | ||
| 600076 | 2007-10-11 21:57:00 | while others fell its a silly nanny-state rule that restricts their right to freedom of speech. So the mods have to try and navigate a line somewhere in between. Yeah, but like the open source people say, free speech isn't like free beer. A lot of people think of freedom of speech as being the right to say anything they want. But, like all rights, responsibilities go along with them. There are legal restraints to free speech in New Zealand - the libel and defamation laws, for instance. Anyway, Bruce is right, the moderators (as agents of the site owner) define the envelop of "normal" for this forum - and there we have the end of the matter for the thread starter. He effectively criticised the mods! Burn the witch! |
Deane F (8204) | ||
| 600077 | 2007-10-11 22:05:00 | Cool thread eh boy???? :p :p Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 600078 | 2007-10-11 22:08:00 | It shouldn't be up to the Mods to keep the peace. It's not their job to heavy handedly censor what people say, but rather to deal with severe rule breaches. They do a really good job, which I would expect is a difficult task in itself, but it's the responsibility of forum members to define the sort of community we want PF1 to be. | somebody (208) | ||
| 600079 | 2007-10-11 22:23:00 | Free beer where? | Ho Chi Minh (11121) | ||
| 600080 | 2007-10-11 22:29:00 | It shouldn't be up to the Mods to keep the peace. It's not their job to heavy handedly censor what people say, but rather to deal with severe rule breaches. They do a really good job, which I would expect is a difficult task in itself, but it's the responsibility of forum members to define the sort of community we want PF1 to be. Hell of a high horse you have there old chap. This forum has found its happy medium, years ago. You need a hooby.Or perhaps a lie down. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 600081 | 2007-10-11 23:15:00 | Hell of a high horse you have there old chap. This forum has found its happy medium, years ago. You need a hooby.Or perhaps a lie down. It's official, Metla describes himself as "a happy medium". :) |
Biggles (121) | ||
| 600082 | 2007-10-12 00:47:00 | It's official, Metla describes himself as "a happy medium". :) So does that mean an amusing time at his seance's? |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 600083 | 2007-10-12 02:15:00 | It shouldn't be up to the Mods to keep the peace . It's not their job to heavy handedly censor what people say, but rather to deal with severe rule breaches . They do a really good job, which I would expect is a difficult task in itself, but it's the responsibility of forum members to define the sort of community we want PF1 to be . I wonder at your treatise on frog boiling there . . . evolution (social, not fish-to-people) is good . . and we all know that revolution is never productive for long anyway . What I'm saying is that the forum has set in-place rules . . that we all agreed to on sign up . If there's been any allowed changes over time, they are most expressly evolutionary, not revolutionary . The fact that the mods have ALLOWED certain new tendencies to slowly creep in does not diminish the value of the original rules . Sometimes the mods try to snap the site rules back to original concept after things have gotten out of hand . . . . and that appears to be a human weakness . They want to do a good job . . and then there is wind in the ranks for change and the ivory ones (that's NOT a slam!) want status quo . The mods are in between . There are also revolutionaries in the trenches who want whatever has gotten past the mods to become the new "normal" of the site . Every time that a mod wants to return the site to ivory normal, that's when it hits the fan . . . . but it really shouldn't . I expect extreme fairness in the mods . . . and that's OK and not unfair as an expectation . . . . . because if they wear the hat, the responsibility goes with it . Everybody likes to stretch the envelope sometimes . . . I am no exception . . . but it's good to know there is some control and oversight . :xmouth: Please place no negative value on references of "ivory towers" etc . . it's not a slam here in the US . . . it's just a delineater . We have an Executive, an Judicial and Legislative branch in this government and we quite willingly make those distinctions . Towers and Trenchers are just an extension of that . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
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