Posted by Dinah on October 24, 2004, at 8:40:15
In reply to Re: Dr. Bob » alesta, posted by SLS on October 24, 2004, at 8:10:20
I'm glad Dr. Bob has given us a venue to express our thoughts about administrative matters. First of all, we *can* make a difference. Not all the time, but we can. And secondly, if this board wasn't here, this would just all be done on the main boards unless Dr. Bob just deleted all of it or didn't allow discussion of it.
That's been my experience of Yahoo groups anyway. Where the mods have learned to just delete criticism. I doubt that anyone would prefer the simple deletion of criticism.
Nor do I in any way think that what happens here is greatly influenced by the topic of Babble. The most vicious fights I've ever seen were at dog groups, with church and doll groups closely behind. And no, it's not me. Babble is the only place that I care about enough to participate in these discussions. I just leave the other places or skip over the posts. Since dog, doll, and church groups are the only groups I've participated in that didn't have teachers to lay down the law, I'm thinking it's universal.
(Actually there might be occasions when I wish that Dr. Bob would delete anything negative. But since I'm fond of speaking my own mind, in general I don't think I'd like it.)
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