Re: [atlarge-discuss] list confrontation(s)

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Joop and all fellow members,

Joop Teernstra wrote:

> At 05:34 p.m. 11/06/2003, bruce@barelyadequate.info wrote:
>
> >|  3. Remain civil at all times, even when you feel provoked. Persistent
> >|  incivility will be rewarded with removal from the Forum.
> >
> >Some thought will need to go into how such a removal process would work.
>
> The elected moderator may be given some latitude to request the list-admin
> to bar individuals. The list admin is the one with the ultimate means to do it.

  This is a very bad idea and was a failure on the IDNO discuss
list.

>
>
> >"Incivility" needs to be specifically defined.
>
> Very hard to define in a multicultural context and always easy to evade,
> once defined.
> Easier to define "persistent" , but  there too, once it is defined, it can
> be skirted.
> (sigh)
>
> >|  Doing so willfully may lead to you being immediately and
> >|  permanently banned or you posting rights being restricted.
> >
> >Permanently?  Have to be a pretrty serious violation to invoke that, I would
> >think!
>
> Of course. More likely a pattern of violations.
>
> >|  Civility includes not to repost private correspondence, unless such
> >|  correspondence was abusive or threatening and its reposting is in the
> >|  public interest.
> >
> >OK, I guess, although I've always believed private is private.
>
> I think people should be free to report and quote unsolicited threats,
> insults and harassments. Apart from that exception I strongly  agree with
> you that private is private.
>
> With regards to limiting list traffic, I am not so much thinking of your
> "burst mode" (when people travel it is inevitable),  but more of  a few
> people holding an inane dialog or a slanging match that takes up bandwidth.
> In most cases a warning from the moderator should be sufficient to curb that.
>
> -joop-
>
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