General Discussion Of Moderation Procedures 9.0

I have a question for you. In response to Randman's continual charges that the evos at EvC Forum have their heads up their asses, I told him that the problem was more likely his, and that if he went to other boards he would experience the same problems there as he does here. He said he'd been to other boards and had absolutely no problems, and that it was just the idiots at EvC Forum that caused problems.So what's the real story? Is Randman really all peaches and cream at other boards? Or is that just another li..., er, misunderstanding. I know I've phrased this facetiously, but I am sincerely interested in the answer, because if his behavior *is* actually better at other boards then he may have a point, and there be something to be learned in this.--Percy

You may well be correct that the phenomena being displayed isn't stupidity or ignorance. I've worked with kids with learning disabilities (executive function disorder, not simple stuff like dyslexia (I'm not saying dyslexia isn't difficult to deal with, just that its symptoms make sense in light of the disorder)), and the things they get versus the things they don't get just have no rhyme or reason.I'm not saying Ray or anyone else has a learning disability, just that in many respects the human mind can't accurately be viewed as just a simple "comprehension machine" that you can point at bodies of information. I grant that the minds of Nobel Prize winners appear to operate that way, and for those of us who work in the sciences or in any field where the accurate analysis of information is important it probably appears that most of the people we work with have minds that operate that way, but even so, as RAZD points out most of us have our limits somewhere. Using myself as an example, even all these years after college I'd still like to know why I was so fantastic at math through algebra, trig, geometry, physics, mechanics, and calculus, then hit the wall at differential equations (I'm talking true crash and burn after stellar grades in math to that point, and I still don't get DQ). The mind is a mystery.The way I see it is that even though the mind is a mystery, and even though perhaps anyone's particular issues might not really be their fault, we still have to enforce standards in order to maximize the opportunities for productive discussion, no matter how unfair that might feel to the affected people.--Percy