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Author Topic:   General discussion of moderation procedures: The Consequtive Consecution Sequel
AdminJar
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Message 1 of 302 (284745)
02-07-2006 7:36 PM


This is the place to comment on moderation procedures.
Added by edit by Adminnemooseus - The following are the previous "General discussion of moderation procedures" topics, in order or origin:
Change in Moderation?
General discussion of moderation procedures
General discussion of moderation procedures: The Sequel
General discussion of moderation procedures: The Consecution
General discussion of moderation procedures: The Consequtive Consecution

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SuperNintendo Chalmers
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Message 2 of 302 (286994)
02-15-2006 3:04 PM


no more funny links
I assume that we aren't supposed to post funny links, just for kicks in the coffee house. (I probably should read the board rules more closely )
I'll refrain from doing so in the future.
Lata
{This message is in reference to Vicious god quiz and other hilarities!. There I said that the topic should have gone to the "Links and Information" forum, or perhaps the "Proposed New Topics" forum. Upon further thought, the message probably should have gone to some already existing topic, be it "L&I" or perhaps one of the existing "Coffee House" humor topics. As it is a pretty minor item, being a new topic is just adding clutter. - Adminnemooseus}
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Adminnemooseus
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Message 3 of 302 (287000)
02-15-2006 3:17 PM
Reply to: Message 2 by SuperNintendo Chalmers
02-15-2006 3:04 PM


Re: no more funny links
I added the relevant link to the previous message. I then ended up adding further comments on the matter. Perhaps these further comments should have been in this message, but instead I'll flag them via this message.
Adminnemooseus
{Edited to yet once again change ID.}
This message has been edited by Adminnemooseus, 02-15-2006 03:18 PM

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AdminNWR
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Message 4 of 302 (287001)
02-15-2006 3:19 PM
Reply to: Message 2 by SuperNintendo Chalmers
02-15-2006 3:04 PM


Re: no more funny links
I assume that we aren't supposed to post funny links, just for kicks in the coffee house.
In some cases, posting to Humor Strikes back might be appropriate. Creating a new thread for a "funny link" is usually inappropriate.


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SuperNintendo Chalmers
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Message 5 of 302 (287017)
02-15-2006 3:41 PM
Reply to: Message 4 by AdminNWR
02-15-2006 3:19 PM


Re: no more funny links
Thanks moose and NWR. I'll stick to the humor threads in the future.
I figured you guys weren't totally against some comedy!

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Jazzns
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Message 6 of 302 (287094)
02-15-2006 6:14 PM


will Evopeach ever cross the line?
I am all for the whole affirmative action for creos on this board but seriously...
Evopeach writes:
Dear egomaniac and immature bloviator,
Message 186

Of course, biblical creationists are committed to belief in God's written Word, the Bible, which forbids bearing false witness; --AIG (lest they forget)

SuperNintendo Chalmers
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Message 7 of 302 (288655)
02-20-2006 11:41 AM


Suggestion for Buzsaw
Buzsaw, I have to say I've been impressed by your moderation so far.
I have a small suggestion: I find it very useful when the admins include the admin thread links in their signatures. It makes it very easy to jump to the appropriate thread if one wishes to respond to the admin action. I think it really helps keep responses to admins in the appropriate place.
One more thing, I'll try to be a little more gentle in my chiding of Randman. I may be in the minority, but I do find his posts interesting on philosophical subjects even if I disagree with him. I am trying to dissuade him gently from spending so much time attacking the biases/belief/etc. of scientists (at least it's a huge waste of time, IMO). I think if we could just get Randman to ease up on the conspiracy theory stuff it would greatly improve the board.
Keep up the great work as an admin. I hope this doesn't sound condescending (because it isn't meant to be, and I certainly don't claim to be a quality poster).... but I think your admin status has also improved the quality of your non-admin posts.
Cheers

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jar
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Message 8 of 302 (289356)
02-21-2006 7:53 PM


Question for AdminBuz
This is related to Message 49
Well AdminBuz, if you will note that post was from 4 months ago. In adition, to say his post was CRAP was the kindest shading I could put on his contributions at EvC. I did not attack him, only the content of his messages. Further, AdminNosy went on in the next message to say
I don't think he's worth responding to and don't believe he has enough understanding of any form of reasoning to get it anyway. So I don't bother to post anything.
so I stopped responding to him.
Please point out where I did not follow both the forum guidelines and also Admin directions?

Aslan is not a Tame Lion

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arachnophilia
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Message 9 of 302 (289360)
02-21-2006 8:02 PM
Reply to: Message 8 by jar
02-21-2006 7:53 PM


Re: Question for AdminBuz
while the crackdown on worthlessly short and non-contributing posts has been kind of recent, this point is still wrong:
In adition, to say his post was CRAP was the kindest shading I could put on his contributions at EvC.
the kindest shading you could put on his contribution was a polite, and well-thought-out refutation of his points, "crap" though they may be. "crap!" is an opinion, and a personal one. unless you can actually SUPPORT that assertion, there is no point in posting it.
and buz, that post was a bit old -- there is little sense derailing a thread that is currently going quite smoothly by catching an admin issue that should have been caught months ago.


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AdminBuzsaw
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Message 10 of 302 (289400)
02-21-2006 11:37 PM
Reply to: Message 8 by jar
02-21-2006 7:53 PM


Re: Question for AdminBuz
Jar writes:
Well AdminBuz, if you will note that post was from 4 months ago.
Yes Jar, I see that now. I had forgotten the thread was old and neglected to note the date, thinking it was a fresh thread. My bad and I apologize for that. After this I'll make a point to make sure what my moderating is on fresh stuff.
Jar writes:
In adition, to say his post was CRAP was the kindest shading I could put on his contributions at EvC. I did not attack him, only the content of his messages. Further, AdminNosy went on in the next message to say
I don't think he's worth responding to and don't believe he has enough understanding of any form of reasoning to get it anyway. So I don't bother to post anything.
so I stopped responding to him.
Please point out where I did not follow both the forum guidelines and also Admin directions?
1. Jar, tell that to Randman, who would have never gotten by with such a post. It was clearly not the kindest shading you could have put on it, no matter what AdminNosy said about the new member. (That matter has been addressed in the Private Admin forum, so I'll not address it here.) According to the guidelines, it was your duty to either state why you thought the information to which you were referring was crap (imo, a kinder and better word would be false}. This was a new member, and we all should be especially hospitable to new legit members. Your post was a violation of these points of Forum Guidelines, #4 and #10:
#4: Points should be supported with evidence and/or reasoned argumentation. Address rebuttals through the introduction of additional evidence or by enlarging upon the argument. ...............
#10: Always treat other members with respect. .............

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Buzsaw
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Message 11 of 302 (289404)
02-21-2006 11:47 PM
Reply to: Message 7 by SuperNintendo Chalmers
02-20-2006 11:41 AM


Re: Suggestion for Buzsaw
Thanks for the kind and encouraging remarks, SuperN. Thanks also for the suggestion. It's a good one. As for your last comment, should we all then become moderators so as to spiff up our performance?

BUZSAW B 4 U 2 C Y BUZ SAW

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FliesOnly
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Message 12 of 302 (291832)
03-03-2006 1:34 PM


Unfair to Crashfrog?
AdminJar:
Why is it that Tal can spout his garbage, such as:
Tal writes:
You and Crash simply are not intellectually honest.
Nattering nabobs of nonconsequentiality.
but if Crash calls him a liar and a probably a disgrace to the uniform he gets suspended? I'm not saying Crashfrog was right in saying what he said (but hey, the truth can hurt sometimes)...but Tal does this all the time and gets nothing. Seems a bit one sided to me, espsecially if you follow the sequence of events that led to Crashfrogs more than justified response (IMHO) and the fact that it took place took place in "Coffee House".

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Message 13 of 302 (291839)
03-03-2006 2:03 PM
Reply to: Message 12 by FliesOnly
03-03-2006 1:34 PM


Re: Unfair to Crashfrog?
I haven't even looked in on the thread (you provided no link), so this is uninformed feedback.
Crash's posts range from the trivial, the off-topic and the inappriately acerbic to the brilliant. My guess is that he's paying for past sins. There's a style of posting that when occasional often goes unnoticed, but when a habit can't be ignored.
I don't know how often Tal questions people's honesty and integrity - I've never engaged in discussion with him, nor have I read any of his posts since his Greetings from the Sandbox. thread on New Year's day of 2005. I'm guessing he doesn't often participate in science discussions. Moderators are not all of one mind on honesty and integrity issues. While I consider questioning someone's honesty and integrity as a serious violation of the "respect for others" guideline, not all moderators agree.
There's also the other issue that, for whatever reason, the creationist and conservative Christianity participants (speaking of them generally as a group and not saying this applies to every individual) take a much more liberal and, shall we say, free-spirited interpretation of the Forum Guidelines, and behavioral improvements do not seem to follow from any moderator requests or from moderator actions such as restrictions, suspensions and bannings. Enforcing the Forum Guidelines fairly and equally for both evolutionists and creationists quickly diminishes the ranks of creationists, which puts a crimp on discussion. And so there's a strong tendency on the part of moderators to give the creationists freer rein.

--Percy
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Dan Carroll
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Message 14 of 302 (291851)
03-03-2006 2:50 PM
Reply to: Message 13 by Admin
03-03-2006 2:03 PM


Re: Unfair to Crashfrog?
I don't know how often Tal questions people's honesty and integrity
It might be worth checking out the two times he's done it today.
One.
Two.
In neither case did Tal explain why he accused his opponent of dishonesty; he just tossed it out as an insult. In Tal's most recent post in each thread, the accusation of dishonesty was the only thing said.
If Crash is being suspended for a pattern of posts which "range from the trivial, the off-topic and the inappropriately acerbic to the brilliant," shouldn't Tal receive the same treatment for posts that range only from the trivial to the off-topic and inappropriately acerbic?
And so there's a strong tendency on the part of moderators to give the creationists freer rein.
Neither argument has anything to do with evolution or Creationism. They are political arguments.

"We had survived to turn on the History Channel
And ask our esteemed panel, Why are we alive? And here's how they replied:
You're what happens when two substances collide
And by all accounts you really should have died."
-Andrew Bird

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Message 15 of 302 (292068)
03-04-2006 10:44 AM
Reply to: Message 14 by Dan Carroll
03-03-2006 2:50 PM


Re: Unfair to Crashfrog?
Hi Dan,
I've looked at the two Tal posts you provided links for, and I looked at Crash's post.
To me, Tal seems to be exhibiting a common human failing, an inability to comprehend how someone could examine the same data yet reach a different conclusion. We often see the same thing on the evolution side when someone says, for example, "While rank and file creationists can't be faulted for believing that evolution violates the laws of thermodynamics, leading creationists like Duane Gish and others, know better and are lying." We can't understand how anyone with a university education and a PhD and technical papers to his credit could misunderstand something so simple (for science-minded people), so they must be lying or dishonest.
Everyone draws the line between the obvious and the non-obvious at different points, so there will often be disagreement about which matters are ambiguous. But we each experience it very personally when someone crosses our own line, and it feels like someone is treating us with a serious amount of disrespect. I think Tal truly can't comprehend how someone informed and knowledgable could disagree with something that seems so obvious to him, and so he believes that they're not honestly evaluating the evidence. His posts do violate the guidelines, but I can't equate his careless jaywalking to Crash's purposeful three car pileup.
Speaking of Crash, I interpreted his post as one of his normal "Okay, so I get suspended for a day, so what" posts.

--Percy
EvC Forum Director

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