From: "[email protected] [FairfieldLife]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2015 4:00 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderating The Peep Show And you [steve] are on the playground complaining about what? I find this all rather interesting. It would seem Barry is faced with a potential unknown obstacle. But he is creative and a good writer, he should be able to weave around this if Doug remains a model of restraint.
Exactly. My approach to this new "Follow The Holy Yahoo Guidelines Or Else" experiment is to do exactly that. I have resolved to never bother to read or reply to posts from any of the four people I consider trolls, and I will do my best to not even refer to them, so the question of "insulting" them or "demeaning" them shouldn't really come up. The fifth person I have considered a troll for the last year or so is now the moderator, so I may have to occasionally refer to him and even reply to him, but I hope I shall be able to do so with some modicum of decorum, as I have done in my posts today. I already made my concerns about possible "lack of transparency" problems with FFL moderation in a post yesterday, and if Doug is paying attention, he'll follow my suggestion and never ban someone without explaining *explicitly* which of the Yahoo Guidelines he feels the person being banned violated, and without re-publishing the offending post, so that others can either agree with his decision, or disagree with it. It should be an interesting experiment. Even if I respected Doug's abilities to pull off this exercise in herding cats (I don't), I wouldn't stand in the way of him *trying* to pull it off. And besides, it could be worse. He could be trying to moderate a Clown Forum: The Greatest Internet Flame Wars Are Happening on Clown-Forum.com | | | | | | | | | | | The Greatest Internet Flame Wars Are Happening on C...No matter how much the internet may change over the years, there are at least two constants: absurd flame wars, and the wildly specific message boards from which th... | | | | View on internet.gawker.com | Preview by Yahoo | | | | |
