Text 40429, 65 rader
Skriven 2006-10-03 06:40:47 av David Drummond (3:640/305)
  Kommentar till text 40409 av Jeff Smith (1:14/0)
Ärende: terrorism
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Jeff Smith -> David Drummond wrote:

 DD>> The fact is Jeff, I don't think anything is broken, nothing needs
 DD>> fixing. If it isn't broken, don't fix it.

 JS>      Take a look at this echo. This echo is considered a discrace by
 JS> people across the zones. It is looked at as a reason NOT to want to
 JS> join Fidonet. Count the people allowed to post profanity, insults,
 JS> personal attacks, Etc. People act and say anything that they choose.
 JS> With no interventon or concern expressed by the current moderator. If
 JS> THAT isn't in your interpretation of a broken echo. I will not even
 JS> bother to ask what is.

A broken echo is one where the postings don't get propagated to other nodes
carrying that echo.

Granted, some of the messages in this echo aren't that interesting - I don't
read those. That's how freedom of speech works.

[...]

 DD>> Any problem with this echo is NOT the moderator......


 JS>      The posters are the cause of the problem. The moderator is
responsible
 JS> for the condition of the echo. He or she is responsible for maintaining
 JS> control and taking the actions nessesary to aquire and maintain control.

Only under YOUR rules! The verb "moderate" is not synonymous with "control" in
all versions of English. Currently this echo is not run under YOUR version of
English.

 JS> The current moderator has done niether.The truth of the matter is that you
 JS> don't want a change even knowing that what we currently have isn't
working.

It works well. Messages are reaching participating nodes. I think that the
current moderator is doing as well as anyone could in this day and age.

 JS> You say that if the echo is broken the moderator can't do anything about
that? Then
 JS> why is he even the moderator at all? Why are we even discussing this?

Because you keep it going, trying to get things changed to YOUR way of doing
it, trying to get a moderator who dances to YOUR tune.

 JS> Why are you arguing to keep him as moderator? Is it all just to keep a
zonal way of
 JS> doing things that everyone sees and knows doesn't work? Why not raise
 JS> yourself above the zonal concept?

Because we cannot raise ourselves above the zonal concept. You keep insisting
that this echo should be run according to the rules/mores of YOUR zone. You
seem unable to accept that it is run according to others' methods.


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regards

David

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 * Origin: So where the bloody hell are you? (3:640/305)