Hello Avi, Sunday, June 26, 2005, 1:44:57 PM, you wrote:
>> If that person has broken the list rules then they require reminding >> of said rules but the mods are usually remind the whole list of the >> rules in order to stop repeated breaking of the rules by other people >> apart from those who are being trouted. So normally it is not just the >> person that the trout is being flung at that is being told. > Agreed with reservation. I think this can only work if the moderators > are unbiased in respect to whom they single out as whipping boys. Words carry power. This has been known for a very long time, and is used unreservedly by many religions. For example, many Jews use 'HaShem' to refer to, hum, HaShem; many Christians frown on words like 'hell', and others. <OT> One should also note that words are now used by the new religion out there -- politics (perhaps, not so new). </OT> Depending on one's upbringing, some words will be either rude or blatantly offensive, while a different culture may consider the same words nothing special. This makes moderating an international list extremely complex, and almost impossible to be completely fair. This is probably where we can plug this un-natural thing called courtesy... and the knowledge that upbringing does not need to be coherent. In other words, fairness in moderation is a lost cause :-) Any one doing moderation will eventually find it so, or has already found it so. All we need is time. But, let's move on to bias. Every moderator is biased. This is no big deal -- we are *all* biased, one way or another --, see above. The difference is understanding that one is biased, and trying to find out if the inbred/developed bias is acceptable (to one's ethical being). So, yes, Marck is biased. So are you. So am I. Yet I do not find Marck's bias selective on whom gets the whip. He is doing what he is tasked to and, as far as I can see, doing it as correctly as possible, even if I do not completely agree with it. And... the fact that I do not agree with it does not bring any demerit to his moderation. And, at the end of the day, I find I still can live with you, Marck, and everybody else here. -- ..hggdh.. Using The Bat! v3.5.0.31 and Bayes Filter Plugin v2.0.3 on Windows 2000 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 4
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