----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 2:28
PM
Subject: Re: [Winona] understanding
now
[Winona Online Democracy]
Al:
I would have to disagree with you on several of
your statements below. Personal attacks toward government employees or
elected officials are not considered acceptable on WOD. As a former list manager, I often tried to make this point
both on- and off-list. There is no prohibition for criticizing or attacking
their policies or decisions, though. I would hope that most of us could
do our best to make the distinction clear in our messages, but unfortunately
that does not always happen.
I would also disagree with your statement that
the "forum has failed." On what do you base your opinion? We've been actively
discussing issues in Winona for nearly 5 years and have approximately 200
subscribers. Is this what you define as failure?
I'd like also to remind members that when an
individual oversteps the boundary of civility, they most likely will receive
off-list communication from the forum manager so that rather than some
public form of criticism of the individual offender, what list members see is
a more general reminder to all of the expectations. Generally that is
followed by change in the tone of the debate, an apology by the offender, or
the topic fades away. Just because an individual is not reprimanded on the the
list, does not mean that their actions are seen as acceptable.
Regardless, I'd like to thank Phil for his
efforts in requesting that we all try to remain civil on this forum and
encourage other subscribers to feel free to do the same. I'd like
to see more of us expect civility from all--no matter our
statuses--community members and civil servants are equally deserving of
respect.
Kathy Seifert
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 1:38
PM
Subject: [Winona] understanding
now
[Winona Online Democracy]
I'm sorry that I did not understand the ground rules earlier.
Obvioulsy it is not permitted to make personal attacks and sarcastic
comments towards most individuals. But it certainly is allowed if
those are aimed at any government or employee therof, as shown by Turek and
Kirschman. I'll aim my complaints more carefully in the future.
No wonder this forum has failed.
Al
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