Posted by violette on June 20, 2010, at 17:37:09 [reposted on June 21, 2010, at 10:17:47 | original URL]
In reply to Re: wording of pubic 'rephrasing requests' » violette, posted by Dinah on June 20, 2010, at 15:10:09
Dinah,
I use another forum where I've never seen the administrator (a mental health professional as well) intervene to censor anyone's behavior or conversations, although she does chime in from time to time to share her personal experience or to post links to research and ideas to help support the members. I have never come across one post where things got out of hand or mean, although I certainly haven't read them all.
I'd like to think the members here could work stuff out among themselves, as we are all either adults or close enough. All the censoring can make ya feel like walking on eggshells. On most forums, administrators only intervene when things get out of hand. Not that this forum should be like 'most forums', but this issue has been brought to his attention before--and I do truly think it can be considered 'shaming', and others have stated they thought the same.
Anwyay, I think I already said all I have to say about the shaming issue. I don't have the answers, but I'm sure the "brilliant and reticent Web mastermind" can figure it out.
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