Maybe Rick gave Buck the job to learn how he would fail.
On 06/08/2015 10:44 AM, [email protected] [FairfieldLife] wrote:
Allowing Buck to moderate is a bad idea. He dishes out the
same Kool-Aid.
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--- <jamesalan735@...> wrote :
*Doug Hamilton has volunteered to moderate and to limit his moderation
to ensuring adherence to Yahoo’s guidelines and no more.*
He will not moderate with his puritanical Buck alter-ego.
Click on the link below to see a sample of how Doug Hamilton has
commonly used FFL over the years. This is from a few weeks ago.
Posts such as this are interspersed with incessant whining about how
FFL is inappropriately run.
In the hiring business, a common phrase is "Hire for attitude, train
for skill". Well, I doubt if there will be any training for skill in
this moderator position. Based on my observations of his approach to
FFL, I don't see that Doug has either the attitude or the capacity to
'moderate' himself or FFL.
However, the deed is done, and I guess only time will tell.
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--- <rick@... <mailto:rick@...>> wrote
---<dhamiltony2k5@... <mailto:dhamiltony2k5@...>> wrote :
We sat over this together in church the other day. It will be fine.
–JaiGuruYou
It was a wedding. Ordinarily you wouldn’t find me in church.
Almost daily, various people urge me to moderate FFL or get someone to
do it. With BatGap and my other responsibilities, I don’t have the
time. I believe in very minimal moderation, at least for FFL. I think
the “anything goes” nature of it has contributed to its success and
longevity. But I think we are obligated to at least abide by Yahoo’s
guidelines. Theoretically, frequent violation of those guidelines
could get the group shut down. *Doug Hamilton has volunteered to
moderate and to limit his moderation to ensuring adherence to Yahoo’s
guidelines and no more.*He will not moderate with his puritanical Buck
alter-ego. I know some will bristle at what they perceive as a
restriction of their freedom of speech, but different types of speech
are appropriate in different contexts, and again, in the context of a
Yahoo group, we are obligated to abide by Yahoo’s guidelines. So I’m
going to try this and see how it goes. If Doug abuses his authority
and/or fails to moderate fairly and objectively, I will revoke his
moderator status.
--- <turquoiseb@... <mailto:turquoiseb@...>> wrote :
Sad news.
Might I propose, before Doug starts banning people, that you and Rick
insist on a few guidelines for *him* when he does this.
I'm suggesting this because I think everyone here is aware that Doug
is...uh...not quite in touch with reality these days, and tends to see
things that aren't really there.
So what I suggest is that if he is indeed given the power to ban
someone, he cannot do so without reposting *the exact post* that Doug
feels is in violation of the Yahoo Guidelines, and without explaining
to the group *exactly why* he thinks this poster needs to be banned.
Otherwise, you know what's going to happen. Doug will just ban the
people he doesn't like, without telling *anyone*, and they'll just
fall off the radar because they can't post any more, either to
complain or to defend themselves.
I think we all know that a tyrant has just been handed the keys to the
kingdom. I think we also all know what he will do with them. I'm just
suggesting a procedure that insures he can't do it in secret.
*From:*"j_alexander_stanley@... [FairfieldLife]
<mailto:j_alexander_stanley@...%20[FairfieldLife]>"
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
*Subject:* [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderating The Peep Show
As is typically the case these days, I am completely out of the loop
with respect to Rick's handling of FFL. Doug's posts this morning
piqued my curiosity, and it turns out that Rick made Doug a moderator
yesterday afternoon. I have no idea what Doug is supposed to do in
terms of enforcement. As for me, my role will not change.
---<dhamiltony2k5@... <mailto:dhamiltony2k5@...>> wrote :
Thanks R-V, I appreciate the perspective of your enlightened
high-minded empathy in experience for the well-being of FFL.
