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Sadly supporting moderation
Phyllis and I have come to favor the effort to have a moderated version
of rec.ponds. We would like a rec.ponds where anyone can post and their content would be the determiner of whether their post goes up. Before we began to see so much personal animosity on rp, the posts were overwhelmingly supportive and off-topic messages were marked 'OT'. They were mostly friendly interaction between friends. Sadly, we have now reached a point where the majority of the posts - especially crossposts - are conflictual rather than pond-related. That defeats the purpose of the group and it has been entrenched long enough that we are not hopeful that conflictual posters will shift to consistent constructive posting. Returning conflict for conflict simply perpetuates and escalates the conflict. We have come to a point that we believe a moderated group is likely to be the only way to achieve a usenet rp group and to keep it free of the conflictual messages. We support the effort to have a moderated group. I personally would like to see anyone free to post on the moderated group. Content is the best basis for moderation. I see a problem, however, with that. It is volume. The moderators would have a lot of reviewing to do. It seems to me that some basic filtering/moderating rules would be good...like crossposted messages, certain words and, yes, suspending or banning members who persist in conflict rather than pond messages. Pond groups simply are not intended to be places of personal non-pond conflict. They are not intended to be one of 10 groups where a personal hostility is being launched. Effective moderation would help members prone to conflictual messages to exercise self-control. We began enjoying rec.ponds in 2002. It helped us with our pond. It built a wonderful friendship network for us. We would love to see conflict go away and the group one again about ponds. That does not seem likely in the forseeable future if conflict is not somehow abated. Moderating seems to be the best bet. For what they are worth, those are our thoughts. They are launched in a spirit of friendship and intended to be without rancor. Jim |
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