Arunima G wrote: > Do re-read what I wrote > >"Recently someone posted a mail characterising this entire discussion > > as "intellectual masturbation". Now I personally respond to that as > > one should to someone who is onanistically challenged - but why is > > that language not objectionable?" > > If you read that carefully you may find that your support may seem a > little displaced to the person concerned!
Please read what I wrote as a reply as a moderator It is not his first post & so it directly enters the list. moderator have no voice in it. And it is a response to the discussion here, And as a personal opinion i noted the following "Personally I feel there is nothing wrong with masturbation." You are applying my personal opinion over moderator position and linking them. It is not the first time on this list and it automatically shrinking the space of mine to engage with multiple identities in same profile as I mensioned before. > > Moderating means the mails will be temporarily kept in queue for > approval before entering to the list. It is a way to avoid OFFTOPIc & > spam in this list. I felt geedhas mail on velayudhan nair's artcle is > not relevant to the list Other than exposing geedhas face.( I dont know > who is he, After i came to know he is her husband i feel it is not at > all relevant) Same for her new mail on abhaya report. > > > On what grounds are you deciding what is "off topic" and "spam" about > what Geedha posted? Please read the above sentence again. Is it marked Geedha's posts as spam? It is describing the process of moderation and its purpose. Geedha's post is offtopic in this list because The list is not for the background checking / political correctness of individuals. She also posted a lot of mails without any content (may be due to the starting trouble). The rest of the things in your mail are due to lack of understanding/misunderstandings on the process. I am happy that this discussion contributed a lot of new contributers like Prasant Kumar, Deepa Paul (she was silent for a long time), geedha, christy, jenny, Bindu, sreejita (with a new ID) etc. Since new people are involved, the moderator's job became complex. In this list i argued for moderation as a needed element for constructive discussion. but the notion of moderation & mis portrayal of it with censorship misguided a lot of people including you. Moderation of new members is trivial in Kerala related cyberspaces because malayali is not at all familiar with listservs. Ask K.M venugopal about How moderation helped him to overcome the Formating problems of his Forwards, (even if it is well drafted and relevant to list) (he was under moderation before 3 weeks, it was known for me & him, but not needed to announce on list) Here issue is malayali's misunderstanding of moderation with censorship. As a list owner i have to remind you this is not a list to discuss "everything from activism to intellectual life" . It is clearly stated on groups front page (http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth). This is specifically an activist support list for kerala. Anivar --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
