Hi Eddie Your suggestions for Goanet to adjust to the diversity of interests is quite interesting and original.
However, with regard to your reply below, I definitely have no change in mind for Goanet. I am happy with it except for one simple point. Goanet protocols allow for a reason to be provided why a post is rejected as "inappropriate". This built in protocol is ignored almost always by Goanet moderation personnel. If not true, there would be some evidence that reasons are provided when they are requested. Unfortunately, they have NEVER worked for me and several others since Jan/Feb 2008. I would rather that Goanet stated that no reasons for rejections will be provided and I could live with that--after all, Goanet is a privilege and not a right to posters. However, it is the clandestine rejection of posts, that is the source of concern for me and many others and especially, the lack of any transparency re Goanet's own protocols on rejections. On another point, Santosh Helekar deserves a reply to his polite and reasoned petition (on behalf of several Goanet posters) about how the policy on rejected posts operates. To say that his carefully worded query is "inappropriate" hardly gives much credit to Goanet surely. It simply raises more questions than answers in the current controversy. I think if Frederick Noronha attempted to address the petition/query from Santosh it would win him plaudits currently--but of course, the petition from Santosh did not reach the Goanet membership and you would not have heard about it. It was eliminated by a nameless moderator as "inappropriate"--so hurrah for Goanet operation! Strangely, my specific concern about Goanet's rejection of posts policy does not seem to perturb Frederick particularly in his long reply to my open letter. Above all, regardless of whether Cecil played a joke re Frederick and regardless of my taking Cecil seriously, for some time, a number of unhappy Goanetters about post rejections had alerted me that Frederick lay at the heart of actual rejections and that Bosco was just the poster boy. I had refused to accept this view until now and I think I need persuading that there is not a demon at work on Goanet re post rejections. As to exactly who it might be with so many denials in the air is pretty irrelevant. What is relevant is that there is a problem that needs sorting out in terms of Goanet needing to follow its own rules/protocols or changing them because of its inability to operationalise them satisfactorily. Cornel > The discussion about GoaNet moderation has come as no > surprise but the acrimony it has generated causes me concern. There are > valid arguments..
