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1500. Ms. No - 4/12/2002 6:04:36 AM
12085. Absensia - 4/12/02 1:23:10 PM
I recommend that the governors talk to one another, perhaps by email, icq, or whatever, to decide such things as creating new threads, deleting old ones, who will be suspended or banned, if a poster feels another is personally attacking him/her in a mean and vicious manner, what role the governors should have, and how to deal with spammers as well as thread hosts who delete on topic posts. And, as I said above, be clear as to what is not tolerated in the Mote, as sent out in the r o e. For instance, if someone is spamming, and there have been a few who have done it, why not have the governors speak up and deal with it, rather appointing (by giving her a thread when Cal stated before she was given the thread, that her reason was to stop Jexster. And either today or yesterday she said she had "won" against Jexster. Cal's thread has some excellent posts and I am not attacking her. I think the "getting Jexster" if he is so bad, should be done by the governors.
As I said above, if this filling the Inferno with on topic posts continues, then we, as hosts, may decide that we should be "enforcers" as well, and delete or move posts of people we decide violate the rules of our threads?
As you asked a few days or so ago, why have a parallel thread?
I don't like censorship either, but if it's going to come, and sometimes it must, then I think it's something the governors should decide and then enforce.
I do understand you and the other governors donate your time, and it can be a real hassle, and I appreciate your efforts. I do think that you have "punted" in giving hosts almost unbridled authority to move or delete posts. It seems like it could end up as vigilante justice.
1501. wonkers2 - 4/12/2002 6:34:49 AM Here's a vote for laizzez faire--no bannings or suspensions and few deletions. I can't think of a single participant who doesn't add something to the forum. Tolerance for occasional off-topic posts or discussions. Personal insults discouraged and relegated to the Inferno. 1502. Ms. No - 4/12/2002 6:37:32 AM Re-posted from Suggestions
17382. Property of Jesus - 4/12/02 8:49:41 AM
For the record: I don't like this ganging up on Jexster that's happening in the political threads.
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
17385. bubbaette - 4/12/02 11:43:07 AM
As much as I hate to find myself agreeing with Rosetta Stone, I find myself agreeing with Rosetta Stone. What is being suggested to shut Jexter up cannot be expressed in any kind of standard that does not apply to other people's posts. He posts too many links? Many people post links here -- nobody's talking about moving or deleting their posts. His posts are inane? Puhleez -- if not being inane were a requirement, a large portion of forum would be deleted every day. He posts too many in a row? So do many other people. He's annoying and tedious? I give you Cal Gal. Show me one set of standards that you can use to shut Jexter up that you can apply even-handedly throughout the Mote.
17388. rubberducky - 4/12/02 12:28:49 PM
i agree with bubba wrt jex. i generally don't care for much moderation in threads. CG is doing a pretty good job in making a readable thread. it sucks that it takes one to ruin the batch, but that's the way these things go.
1503. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/12/2002 6:45:36 AM " . . . He's annoying and tedious? I give you Cal Gal."
LMAF! I loves ya bubbs! 1504. Ms. No - 4/12/2002 6:45:45 AM 17389. Absensia - 4/12/02 12:40:15 PM
I think a US foreign policy thread is a good idea...the topic is an important one, and doesn't really fit into International or the Global Terrorism thread, or American Politics. It's not just about what we are doing to other countries, but such things as who decides foreign policy, does foreign policy change much based on whether the president is a democrat or republian. What glaring problems have been made by the president or foreign policy officials, et al.
Ducks, it's not just one person who has "ruin[ed] the batch." imo.
17390. rubberducky - 4/12/02 12:52:39 PM
Abs:
i think it is, in this single, particular instance. i was this close to giving up hosting my own thread because even i didn't want to read it. endless links, goofy slams on Bush/GOP, constant CNN news updates and multicolored posts are fine for some people, i suppose, but not something i want to read very much of.
CG's doing a decent job with the hand she's been dealt. i may step down as co-host because it has mostly been a name only thing since the thread got rebooted anyway.
as with Politics, the thread is getting to be more trouble to read and participate in than it is worth.
1505. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/12/2002 6:46:11 AM LMAO !!! (F?) 1506. wonkers2 - 4/12/2002 6:47:43 AM laissez 1507. wonkers2 - 4/12/2002 6:54:09 AM One of the advantages of the Mote is that it offers an opportunity to express oneself in a greater variety of ways than in our jobs or face-to-face with friends or enemies--outrageously, eruditely, obnoxiously, whimsically, briefly, at length, profanely--without being punched out, fired or divorced. Let's not try too hard to contain or eliminate that freedom. It might take some of the fun out of the Mote. I don't participate in other forums much, but from what I've seen the level of discourse in the Mote is better than 90 percent of the others. It can be a learning experience if one is open minded. 1508. Ms. No - 4/12/2002 7:12:23 AM Wonkers,
I think it allows a wider range of choice for a greater number of posters if we don't require all threads to have the same tone.
We have a large number of posters who don't find it at all liberating to engage in flame wars and insults. I don't think it's curtailing anyone's freedom to have some threads where those things aren't allowed.
By letting individual thread hosts set the tone for their threads people can then self-select what kind of tone they're comfortable with. That way someone who prefers it rough and tumble doesn't have to walk on eggshells around the fainter of heart and the less volatile among us don't have to live in fear of ambush.
1509. Absensia - 4/12/2002 7:19:50 AM It's interesting to read above and discover that in August, posts #1471 et seq. and even some earlier, the issue of banning, etc., was discussed and obviously continues to be an issue. 1510. bubbaette - 4/12/2002 7:23:27 AM Regardless, I don't think that it's appropriate to establish a thread with the express purpose of excluding a poster. And that was the express purpose of establishing the Global Terrorism thread and killing it's predecessor.
And despite the way Cal painted it, I did not make a dramatic announcment that I would not be participating in that thread because she was being meeeeeeeeaaaan to Jex. I HAD made that decision when the thread was established because I don't at all like the idea of establishing a thread to exclude someone when you can't provide a standard policy that can be applied uniformly as to what is unacceptable. The only reason that I stated my reason for not participating in the thread is because Cal stated that she would be posting a response to me in that thread. 1511. CalGal - 4/12/2002 7:29:16 AM And that was the express purpose of establishing the Global Terrorism thread and killing it's predecessor.
This is untrue. The express purpose of the GT thread was to exclude spam.
1512. bubbaette - 4/12/2002 7:34:29 AM Except that when other people spam, there's a mitigating reason why their posts aren't considered spam. 1513. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 4/12/2002 7:44:57 AM The express purpose of the GT thread was to exclude spam.
Sure, Queenie! 1514. Ms. No - 4/12/2002 7:58:43 AM Wiz,
I don't know if you saw my Message # 1497 but I'm quite serious about it. Your comments on the issue at hand are welcome but random cheerleading and sniper shots are off topic. 1515. CalGal - 4/12/2002 7:58:53 AM Bubba,
No one else spams. There are only two people who have ever spammed the Mote more than once. One is Cellar, who does it only occasionally. The other is Jexster, who does it continuously.
Concerned doesn't spam. You just don't like his comments. So what? I don't move posts I disagree with. In fact, I don't even read Jex's posts enough to agree or disagree with the swill; I just read enough to determine whether they are spam and then I move them.
I don't much care whether you agree with me that Jex spams, provided that you stop misrepresenting the thread's purpose. It was not set up to exclude Jex. Indeed, he has 35 posts in the thread, which is more than anyone except me. Over seventy additional posts of his were moved to the Inferno. Seventy seven posts, I believe, to be a bit more exact. Had they been left there, Jexster's spam would be consuming over 30% of the posts in the thread.
And that is why the thread was set up. So that his garbage wouldn't consume 30% of the posts. 1516. Ms. No - 4/12/2002 8:00:49 AM I'd like to widen this up to discuss actual policy rather than focusing on a specfic poster but I feel that I do need to address this at least once.
Jex was warned about his behavior in Politics as well and took Jay's admonishment to heart refraining from the kind of posting that caused so many people to complain.
People keep talking about a personal vendetta, but what I see is that Jex is aware of what kind of posts were annoying people and he is capable of restraining that impulse if he so desires. He apparently does not so desire in Cal and Ducky's thread.
Neither Cal nor Ducky has asked that Jexter be suspended for failing to obey thread host instructions even though this is well within their rights.
We have very few rules here at theMote and we're really pretty permissive about even most of those, but blatant disregard for host authority and repeated antagonistic behavior isn't a protected right.
1517. bubbaette - 4/12/2002 8:34:01 AM No one else spams.
Cal, YOU spam. How many threads did you post that "wilding" photo in? Or maybe I'm just not up on the current Cal definition of spamming.
What makes it spam? Is it the posting of links? Or non-substantive posts? Most everything you moved was on-topic. Is spamming having too many posts by the same person in a thread? No, wait, that can't be it, because JC has a thread in which only he can post.
I have no issue whatsoever with Concern posting about whatever "concerns" him. It's just that when Concerned does what Jex does, it's not spam. I don't find Jex's posts particularly entertaining or enlightening, but that could apply to several other people as well. I don't often agree with what Jex says or how he says it, so that's not the reason for my speaking up about this. My issue is simple -- there has been no definition of what Jex does that makes his posts spam that doesn't apply to others. There have been no standards explicated that can be applied even-handedly across the board.
Ms. No
As for people keeping talking about a "personal vendetta", I haven't used that term, so don't let Cal put words in my mouth. I did say that it was based on a personal animus. Not that Cal doesn't bear a personal animus for many people on the mote -- hell, all you have to do to trigger it is to disagree with her.
So in my opinion (and you are certainly entitled to your own opinion) the discussion leading up to the creation of the Global Terrorism (and everything that JC has said with respect to Jex recently in the Israel and Palestine thread)has been motivated with the desire to shut Jex up. I would prefer that Jex control himself, but I deeply disagree with the way in which you are going about this mission. 1518. bubbaette - 4/12/2002 8:39:57 AM Anyhow, that's all I have to say about the subject. I said the essentially the same thing when the GT thread was created in the first place, so there's no need to keep repeating myself. Might be spamming. 1519. CalGal - 4/12/2002 8:49:04 AM How many threads did you post that "wilding" photo in?
Two. One, to announce it. The second time because it was relevant in regards to media bias. It was posted a week later when further stories came out.
And the very fact that you would call two posts "spam" in that instance is evidence that you're really stretching, toots.
What makes it spam?..My issue is simple -- there has been no definition of what Jex does that makes his posts spam that doesn't apply to others. There have been no standards explicated that can be applied even-handedly across the board.
Continual posts, over and over again, links not of opinion piece but minor reportage with a misleading title, play by play of trivial press conferences and CNN reports, random rants, no reference to others' posts, no hint that he reads others posts--he doesn't respond or reference them, as a general rule. He posted 25 posts in a row in less than an hour.
That's spam, Bubba. It is clearly definable, and no one else does it. You can insist otherwise, but that just puts your objectivity in question. I don't care whether you agree or not. People have been bitching about Jex's behavior for a long time--at least 18 months, probably longer.
As for your very nearly asinine distinction between animus and vendetta--my moving of Jex's posts is not based on personal animus. I don't dislike Jexster at all. I don't care about him one way or the other. My moving of his posts is based on a single goal: to provide a place to talk about a subject without his endless spasms. I doubt it will work, but it's worth a try.
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