General discussion of moderation procedures: The Consequtive Consecution

Perhaps I could have worded that better, but I was trying to be brief.The kind of debate I was trying to halt had drifted into discussion of member behavior, rather than just moderator behavior. And that's not appropriate for this thread.

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A quick note. This issue is under discussion in the Private Adminstration Forum. In fact, it has been under discussion for several days. I'm afraid you will have to be patient.

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Thanks for posting that.I can tell you this much. The primary concern of the administrators, in their discussion, is in avoiding or minimizing personal conflict.Perhaps you and Trixie can help with that too. There have been a couple of instances of miscommunication, where one of you says something not intended to be an insult, while the other takes it as an insult. So I am asking both of you to be careful in your communications to avoid triggering an incident. And if one of you sees a message from the other as an insult, I am asking that you stop reacting for a while, and think about the possibility that it might not have been intended as an insult.The debates on a forum such as this are, of course, all about conflicting ideas. That's the nature of debate. But we would like to keep to conflict to be about the subject matter, and not about the debaters.

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That is certainly how I take it. You are not on any such list that I know about.

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I took crashfrog as saying that what you wrote was badly wrong, but that he would give you the benefit of the doubt by assuming it was only cut and paste and not something you would write yourself.I agree with AdminJar that you were not being accused of plagiarism.

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I take your message to be a response to Message 187. You should have provided a link.The message to which you were responding (Message 186 also had little useful content. It at least had some minor justification as a response to your earler Message 185. You had no need to give an essentially empty response in Message 187, since you had already posted your position.Please remember that what you post is not a private conversation. It is part of a public discussion. Before hitting Submit Reply, try to think about how your post will appear to somebody who is reading the thread as the result of a Google search.You are capable of making intelligent comments. You damage your own credibility when you post too many messages that look more like schoolyard chatter.