Posted by Lou Pilder on December 4, 2004, at 9:42:18
In reply to Re: Lou's reply, posted by Dr. Bob on December 4, 2004, at 2:02:49
> > I believe the fact that the poster in question has been banned makes it unnecessary for any individual posts to be examined.
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> > partlycloudy
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> That was what I thought...
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> > If the poster left the forum on his/her own volition, would you still think that the post then need not to be addressed by the moderator?
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> > Lou
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> No, in that case I would still address it, since they might change their mind.
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> BobDr. Hsiung,
Let us look at the above. Another poster,(partlycloudy) write that {...believe...that the poster in question has been banned makes it {unnecessary} for any individual posts to be examined...].
Then you write to that,[...That was what I thought...]and if the poster left on their own volition,[...I would ...address it since they might change their mind...].
The reason that I am requesting that you impliment a procedure for these type of situations is so that others could know if the post in question is acceptable or not. One here may not know if a poster that wrote such has left the forum or not and what the reason if they left was for them leaving. Posters sometimes post sporatically and may be absent for weeks or months at a time between posts. This is in regards to your stated goal of the forum being for support. I do not belive that one can jump to any conclusion about a post being acceptable or not just because the poster posted some other post that was not acceptable on another board. In this case, the {other} post is on a different board, and not seen on the thread that the post in question is so there IMO is the potential for some posters here to think that the post is acceptable because you have not addressed it and they may not know that another post on another board by the same posted has resulted in an eviction to that poster, nor may they even know that there is some policy here that allows posts that have the potential to be defaming to another poster to remain aunaddressed by you because of another post by the poster. I have seen posts that have been written as unacceptable by a particular poster and there are other posts by that same poster that are acceptable. I do not prescribe to any system of logic that could have the potential to say that since a post is unacceptasble by a particular poster on another board, that it is unnecessary to examine for acceptability or not all the other posts by that poster. I also do not think or believe that it is a sound mental health practice to prescribe to any system of logic that says that since one post by that poster is unacceptable, then all the rest of the posts by that poster can be left unaddressed. If they are left unaddressed then I believe that others could have the potential to think that a post is acceptable when it is not.
This is why I am requesting the new procedure be implimented by you. I do not think that there could be any harm done to anyone by you notating a post that has the potential to defame another poster or put down that poster. I believe that it is necessarry for you to do so. I am still hurting from posts here that you have not addressed as to the acceptability or not even after I have posted and emailed you to do so and since you have not addressed them, one here could have the potential to think that the posts about me are acceptable by you which have tthe potential to defame me and humiliate me. And if your policy here could hurt me, then I feel that it could hurt others also. Who knows what person could see the post that calls another a "fruitcake" and an 'idiot" months from now. There is the potential for a reader to not know by seeing the post there that the poster that wrote the post was evicted for writing another post on another board. There is the potential for one to not know that you have written that it is unnecessary for you to address the post because of that. They may not even consider that such a policy could even exist because they may be a citizen of a country that prohibits in their constitution any such policy like that to exist in their country.
Lou Pilder
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