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Re: Block user X from replying to a message by user Y
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Mon, 13 May 2002 17:08:23 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, Frank Filz writes:
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> I don't want to see time-outs called on someone who for whatever reason
> is a bit sensitive about a discussion. I would like us to learn how
> "banter" can be misread and be more sensitive, and at least not jump
> down someone's throat when they post offense to "banter". I think that
> if I was the one who posted some kind of response to banter, and then
> got shot down for being overly sensitive, and then a few other people
> jumped in, and maybe I posted once to defend myself, and then as a
> result, was among those given a time-out, that I would feel at least
> partially that the time-out was in part saying I was wrong to have
> posted my first post.
I think what you're saying is that you don't want me to expect everyone to
just "be quiet and take it" if they feel offended. If that's what you're
expressing concern over, I can understand and it's a good point.
But I'd tell you not to worry about that too much because it's going to take
a LOT to get timed out. And if there's a situation with a big group of
people, it's not likely that I'd apply a sweeping silence.
Asking me for examples is justified, and I certainly would point out to the
community where and why a time-out was called. (IMO, it shouldn't just
'happen' like an act of the HOG.)
I have only a few minutes here, but I'll quickly give you a little more
picture of what would cause me to react...
General guidline: Don't make me mad.
People who are being mature don't need to worry. It's those who keep up a
hostile, all-noise, ping-pong. The ones who beat a dead horse. Who are a
nuisance to the community. If you imagine being a first-time LUGNET visitor,
and never having posted to a newsgroup in your life, and you observe
conversation that makes your jaw drop and your eyes bulge, that's the kind
of thing I won't tolerate.
Purely for the sake of example, (I'm not interested in taking sides, and it
is now a dead issue,) here's a specific point where bickering should have ended:
http://news.lugnet.com/market/buy-sell-trade/?n=13882
In reality, at that time, if I had noticed it going on, it may have taken
one more ping or pong for me to end it.
Scott's sigh did not make me mad. Larry's follow up did make me mad, for a
number of reasons. I got even madder when Lar wouldn't take it to e-mail.
And madder still when I saw people needed to ask them to stop. twice. So,
there were actually a number points where I would have liked to switch off
both of the guilty parties. I found that 'bicker-fest' completely offensive
and disrespectful to the community. It's the kind of thing that simply won't
be okay any more.
-Suz
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