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Re: Moderation
I've noticed that some unflattering statements about people
are allowed to stand, and some unflattering statements
about people are not. It's not always easy to tell when
one or the other will happen. I'm still working on sussing
out a pattern.
Whether it's pattern-based or actually random, my
frustration continues to rise at its arbitrariness.
I was told in a chat that Lasher is very
hypocritical because he forbids X but does X, but
I don't think that hypocrisy is the deal. I think that
there is a multiheaded ill-organized mess of
moderation that occurs when rules are not
explicitly laid out governing permitted content.
I think Lasher might *seem* hypocritical when he,
for example, engages in offtopic banter in a
thread that has had posts deleted for offtopic banter.
But in fact the problem is that his moderators
are exercising editorial authority on their own
scripts, and enforcing their own rules and
interpretation of unwritten "understandings"
on some people, but not on others.
The whole thing is just disgusting and while I
continue to exercise the patience being asked for
while things get worked out, I think perhaps it
is not too much to ask that dicretionary
deletions and editings happen only in extreme
cases *until* the formal written policies exist.
Seems only fair that patience is asked of
one group, restraint be expected of the other.
-Crat
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