--- "Dr. Ambert Pimenta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess your right Mario , we need change and change > is the thing for 2005. But need we listen to your > rambling and getting involved in every comment > made on Goanet? > Mario replies: The only change I would like to see on Goanet is a far more even-handed interpretation of the rules by one or two capricious moderators, whose identity I suspect but cannot prove, and far more positive participation in terms of postings by people who currently seem to want to be entertained with issues that THEY are interested in.
Here's the difference, which you don't seem to have grasped, even though I had covered it explicitly in my previous post. Your opinion seeks to shut me up, and other vociferous or annoying posters, or at least, to impede our freedom of speech. My opinion respects everyone, by letting them speak their minds, whatever that may be, as long as they are civil, and lets readers decide whether they want to ignore, read, respond, or not. > Dr. Pimenta continues: > Yes this is an open forum, but Goanet as any other > forum has rules .. rules that you dont really care > about. > Mario responds: Where did you get that idea? What I object to is rules that are applied selectively and capriciously. I have shown Boss Herman examples of posts by others, who may be friends of the moderator on duty, whereas my responses were rejected by some other moderator, and then they all hide under their desks and no one can explain why. > Dr. Pimenta writes: Lets not make this another case of splitting up this group as it happened some years back with the birth of the Goa Forum. > Mario replies: I have no idea what happened back then, but citizens in free societies respond to rules with auto-screening and self-selection, all of which is part of living in freedom and democracy as far as I'm concerned. Que sera, sera. There is already a group formed called Goenchim Xapotam that has very few rules or restrictions other than a request to be civil, which is also frequently ignored, more like Hyde Park in London used to be in the old days, and maybe still is.
