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DemonKia -> RE: Moderator Eleven (8/13/2009 1:11:51 PM)
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Pound cake serves as a foundation for all kinds of other dessert goodies, such as strawberry shortcake. (Slices of pound cake covered in sliced strawberries & whip cream, either of which is sweetened to one's tastes . . ... . Other fruit [blueberries, peaches, whatever] can be used . . .. ) The cook can substitute other flavorings in the pound-cake recipe, say, half the vanilla replaced with almond extract. Pound cakes can also be drizzled with rum & / or a lemon-infused sweet glaze, a pirate-y kinda confection, lol . . . . .
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ORIGINAL: JonnieBoy
There can't be many on here who'd like that kind of thing surely ? ... it's got FAR too much vanilla.
Pirate
As for the topic of moderation, OP, there are unmoderated forums out there on the wild, wild webs, if people really feel the need for unmoderated online conversation.
I prefer moderated conversation, but I also have a sorta perverse liking of rules, boundaries, limits, laws, & so on & so forth . . . . . *snickers* . . . . . Especially contrasted against also liking rebellion & insurrection & dissension & irreverence & similar . . . . Hmmmm, yeah, & I like the play between those two edges . . . . . .
& moderating as a volunteer job is tough, thankless work. These are private entities & private entities have all kinds of rights to impose tons of reasonable rules. Indeed, for liability reasons there are typically oodles of incentive to enforce a slate of strictures, covering of the ass, ya know . . . . .
Oh, yeah, & I've been mod-spanked a few times, & I've had posts & threads pulled. C'est l'vie. It is what it is. I generally strive to stay out of the upset, name-calling kinda thing, avoid the negativity stuff as much as possible, & I've been kicked off of online fora for engaging in reasonable discussion, so . . *shrugs* . . . . CollarChat is a reasonably well-behaved place in my experience . . ..
I've 'followed' various posters around who've gotten put on whatever it is that has their posts pending approval, yeah, out of curiosity. I do have a significant interest in free expression issues & so I look for the many ways that the censorious impulse emerges from human interactions. & the pattern I saw in the few I've 'monitored' who've gotten the pending approval thingie, they seem to have 'hostility issues' & / or 'trollish propensities'. & these things are more in the 'how' things are stated rather than the ostensible content of what's being communicated . . . ...
The moderation here does seem to mostly be aimed at limiting the flame wars, keeping things relatively on track, within the framework that inflammatory stuff is very subjective, that the boundaries can be tremendously ambiguous . . . . . The obstreperous typically have plenty of rational reasons why they're being resistant. Sometimes resistance is good & useful. Plenty of time, resistance makes the resisters feel better. & some portion of time resistance is futile . . .. .
Relative to other online fora, CollarChat seems to be rather amicable . .. . I read quite a bit of news online & scan the comments, if any, & that online commentary tends to be quite scalding & extreme . . . .. . & yet it does seem to be a fairly light hand moderating things here as there's still plenty of hostility & conflict & etc all over the place. The place often looks quite a bit like some nature documentary of large critters battling for dominance, big surprise not . . . . . & then it also has aspects of spending the day at the daycare facility, watching toddlers & young children interacting . .. . . . & all while there is plenty of compassion, intelligence, common sense, & love (frequently of the tough variety) on display all over the place . . . . . . Pretty nice return on my investment, actually . . . . .
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