Posted by Dr. Bob on September 17, 2002, at 0:08:54
In reply to Re: Dr. Bob, please? » judy1, posted by Mark H. on September 16, 2002, at 19:58:34
> 1.) I advised Reifiedbeans that name-calling is not OK here. Thank you for pointing it out.
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> 2.) I deleted Trouble's truly unnecessary post on PPB. It was insensitive at best.I'm glad the system's working for you now, and I really appreciate the help, and I know you can't predict what I'm going to think, but sometimes less is more.
1. I do try myself to nip things in the bud, but I think it may be better to require two uncivil posts in a thread for deputies: (a) There's some opposition to the whole deputy thing, so if deputies are less active, there may be fewer complaints. (b) Part of the idea is that if something can't wait, deputies can act, but if there's only one uncivil post, then maybe it can in fact wait:
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20020725/msgs/7347.html
(c) And the less deputies do, the less it will interfere with being plain old posters.
2. I really don't like to delete posts. If someone posts something that's so problematic that it needs to be deleted, they should be blocked.
> If I knew how, I would be tempted to edit Trouble's response with a couple of asterisks to make the language she chose less blatantly offensive
3. Tempted, I understand, but I like to edit even less than I like to delete.
These are maybe fine points, but I wanted to get them out there. Thanks again,
Bob
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