Thread: Moderation
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Old 08-27-2007, 02:26 PM   #11
cratylus
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Re: Moderation

I am aware of that. However, my opinion on the matter was solicited,
and I expressed it. Not that it's any less obvious, but just a reminder:
it isn't up to you either.

That is a reasonable conclusion, yes.

I engage in moderation. This involves moving violatory threads
or posts to an opt-in-only area. I find deletion to be unnecessarily harsh. I
don't remember ever actually deleting a post that wasn't mine, except
on procedural ground ("you posted this in a different thread already",
for example) in a way that wan't censorious.

I imagine some day I will indeed find myself deleting a post on
content ground...perhaps one with illegal content.

But other than such a thing, deletion wouldn't be the first tool to come out of the box.
There's no need, most of the time.

You're ok with arbitrary post deletion, ok.

Now, perhaps you find my posts sufficiently uninteresting that
it's ok with you not reading what was deleted. Whether it's a
lack of curiosity, or an overarching support of authority
regardless of the justification, you're just
cool with it. Fine.

On the other hand, I *am* curious, and I *do* lack an
overarching support of authority regardless of justification.

I usually find your posts interesting, and even
when I think you are wrong (which apparently happens with greater
frequency lately) I often still learn from reading your words. I would
therefore be very curious to know what you'd written that was
deleted. Since you have much experience in this field and I generally
can gain something from your posts, it would be interesting for
a number of reasons to be able to read posts from you that were
removed from a thread by a moderator.

For that reason I think it would be a wonderful thing to have an
opt-in only board, called "flames" or "offtopic" or "tangents" or
whatever, where people who will not wilt at the sight of
vigorous, heated disagreement can read banished opinions.

Apparently you're still laboring under the impression
that I am against moderation. I am, and have been, explaining
that the deletions in question are not necessary, and per
se make it impossible to debate their justification, and that
is lame. You don't have to delete to moderate. Moderation
in the exercise of moderation is a virtue.

Are you talking about me?

-Crat
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