Posted by gardenergirl on November 6, 2004, at 2:21:09
In reply to Lou's response to some aspect of this thread, posted by Lou Pilder on November 5, 2004, at 11:03:50
> but if one was to ask me if the posts that have no reuqests for a determionations are automaticcaly acceptable, I would answere that it is my opinion that those type of posts are {undetermined}and not necesarrily to be accepted to be acceptable. There could be IMO other reasons why people do not request that a post be determined to be acceptable or not.One reason, IMO, may be that they want the post to stay unaddressed because they want what the post says to be incorperated in the guidlines of the forum. Another reason, IMO, could be a political reason or, IMO, a reason not to request a determination as to fear, of some sort, if they request the determination.
Hi Lou. Your thoughts here got me to thinking about this some more. Although we can't be absolutely sure that if a post has not been addressed by Dr. Bob in some way that is therefore acceptable, I would guess the vast majority of those that do not receive a Dr. Bob-intitiated sanction are in fact acceptable to the vast majority of the Babble community.
I think I would also disagree with your reasons a post might not be put up for determination. Your hypothesized reasons certainly could be factors, but I think it much more likely that the post did not trigger anyone to request special attention to it from Dr. Bob. At least that's usually how I view posts.
One concern I have with a large number of requests for determination is how this behavior might affect the rules here. We've already seen two new rules stemming at least indirectly from this. I think we need to have some credit for our abilities to function on this board as common sense, courteous people without a rule or precedent for every imaginable scenario.
What if we applied such fine distinction in rules to obeying traffic signs. Would we come to a stop at a stop sign and remain there forever because it does not also say Go?
I realize that is a facetious argument, but still, I worry about how complicated the rules will get here.
I'm a simple gal and much better at the big picture than minute details.
gg
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