Posted by Timne on July 9, 2009, at 15:50:40
In reply to Re: Apologies » Timne, posted by SLS on July 9, 2009, at 15:31:05
> > Maybe I presumed that your leadership experience moderating a forum where infractions are adjudged based on the way they affect readers instead of on what the writer intended caused me to believe you would be sensitive to the affect of your words more so than reiterating intent.
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> Actually, I don't think that intent or reception are used as factors to be adjudicated upon."Don't... post anything that could lead others to feel accused or put down"
That seems a very direct reference to effect, potential effect and potential reception.
> It sometimes occurs to me that Psycho-Babble must be the only game in town. Why else would so many people look to challenge its manager with such vigor rather than simply move on to another website? Altruism perhaps?Maybe it seems that way because you're not privy to dialogue at other sites. Maybe other sites minimize the appearance of having managers challenged by moving conflict away from the public eye. The number of people challenging the manager here is obviously far less than that, for example, at popular news sites such as CNN or MSNBC, where many feel they have a civic duty to assure fair treatment of public discussion. I'd need to conduct more research to cite practices at other mental-health oriented sites, but I can think of two or three where the manager does not maintain an ongoing dialogue in defense of managerial style. They just enforce their guidelines and sweep appearance of conflict out of the area as soon as possible.
> How would you prefer to see this website moderated, if at all?
I don't really have a stake in this site, but if I were managing a mental-health site, I would find people with no professional or personal interest in outcomes of conflicts to operate the site.
Can you imagine if John Walton or his heirs acted as full-time greeters at a local WalMart? He'd have a hard time masking his concern that some customers might be secret shoppers from the competition, others might be shoplifters and yet others might be former employees who told him off but still buy his low-cost merchandise. By recruiting greeters just to do the job of greeting, he removes from the formula himself and any attitudes he might leak.
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> Psycho-Babble. Sometimes I like it. Sometimes I don't. Still, I respect the efforts of its founder to maintain it and choose the way he wishes to administer it. I am grateful that this website exists. For now, I find its idiosyncrasies tolerable.
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> - ScottI'm here. That's not a compliment to the site? An agreement to try to recognize and comply with guidelines is reasonable as long as the guidelines are presented in advance and applied consistently. But we weren't asked to take an oath of allegiance, or to call this heaven on earth. We're just asked to play nice, and people don't seem to agree on what nice is, or to understand fully what a well-payed university doctor considers nice.
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