Posted by Racer on March 5, 2006, at 3:02:09
In reply to Re: Chiming in (got longish, no shock there), posted by Dinah on March 4, 2006, at 21:45:46
> There are things I wonder about having a prechecker of posts, though.
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> If a post is approved, yet found uncivil, who would get the PBC? Even I can't always figure out what Dr. Bob will and won't think crosses the line. I wouldn't want to vouch for someone else's posts if I were going to get in trouble if they're found to be uncivil. Yet if you say both people are off the hook as long as they follow the system (as with autoasterisking) is that fair either?
That's a good point. I really hadn't thought through -- what is coming to my mind now, though, other than it's past my bedtime and I shouldn't get into this now, is that we could have something similar to what deputies do: if unsure, you pass it up the food chain.
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> Would precheckers have to be approved? Would there be any preapproval qualifications needed? If not, would the prechecker have a necessarily greater understanding of the civility policy than the person asking? Would a prechecker get disapproved if enough uncivil posts slipped through? How would posters and checkers be matched? Would a poster ask for volunteers to check their posts, and choose from those who volunteer?Actually, since it would frustrated the bejaybers out of most of us if there were too long a delay, I was thinking of having a secured site that the CBs could log into when they had time, and just check as many posts as possible. With some sort of anonymity, maybe, so that everyone would know that this week X, Y, and Z were CBs, but you wouldn't know who had checked what. But there could be a flag showing that it had been checked.
OK. I really am going to bed now. More tomorrow. I've had this thing lately, where I'm dreading going ot bed. I know I'm having nightmares when that happens, and it's playing havoc with my life. Gotta get better about it.
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