Posted by yxibow on March 19, 2006, at 14:37:46
In reply to Re: Please be sensitive, posted by Sobriquet Style on March 19, 2006, at 7:37:37
> An example could be if you're a poster (and deputy,) as a poster you may have close relationships with other posters on the boards, who you consider to be your friends. Then you have other posters who may not be considered your friends eg. you have never interacted with them or felt that you wanted to reply, perhaps never read their posts. If one of your friends say something you may laugh and joke along with them. If another poster says a similar thing and you don't like the format in which its expressed and perhaps its torwards a friend, you can effectively warn, as a deputy, then interact as a poster and then block, as a deputy.
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Which all the more adds to my comments that there should be a separation of powers. Except on ER, a doctor doesn't have sex with their patients and coworkers, and then becomes a doctor, and then goes back, etc. I'm giving an extreme example.
"Then you have other posters who may not be considered your friends" continues the elitist nature of deputies on this board and is getting to the crux of what I am referring to. "Newbies" and "oldtimers." I guess I must be a newbie, even though I've hung around this board for quite a while because I didn't even get a redirect.
No, this board shouldn't be total anarchy, I agree there should be some moderation, but just because someone feels hurt for a moment doesn't mean big brother mommy and daddy should go spank the poster repeatedly. People do get hurt and I'll repeat it again, you can't please all the people all the time. Chances for apologies should be more given, as opposed to fhwap! - byebye.
And then we discuss over and over again... lets, see, I've used horses, and unicorns... beating a dead centaur.. about the minutiae of things, why did so and so get censured, etc..
Something's got to give, because this is increasingly seeming like a fiefdom. And maybe that's exactly what it is, since Dr. Bob or the University is paying Verio for its bandwidth.
I'm sorry, I'm not the most impressed at times -- sometimes I gather some rather interesting information, case reports though they may be, sometimes I add things, but I can't completely agree on this issue.
Tidings-- J
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