juliaoceania
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Joined: 4/19/2006 From: Somewhere Over the Rainbow Status: offline
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With regard to derailing, there are people that get REALLY upset about it. Apparently they see their nuggets of wisdom as being indispensible and disregarded with derailment. I see it as another form of communication, humor, joking, having fun. I don't paticularly have much of an illusion that anything I say here is gospel or saving lives though. I have NO expectation of serious meaningful discourse on CM anymore though and very rarely I am pleasantly suprised. I can understand why some people get persnickety about it, but I think more people enjoy a little humor thrown in with the meat on the bone. I enjoy serious interchanges as well as the humorous kind. I will say that when new people post here, and they have a legit question, and then their thread gets hijacked... well this might be bad form. quote:
I do understand the mods are doing their jobs and trying to keep everyone happy. I do not understand the flip flop from one type of moderation to another, maybe that's just a measure of the fact that we have more mods now and they have varying approaches, although I know that moderation is all under VAA's directives. I think we are partially to blame for this pendulum effect. People start derailing threads where people have serious questions, then those people complain about how incorrigible we all are, so the mods swing the other way and try to nip hijacking in the bud because of one or two cases where it may have been done in a rude sort of way (and it can be rude at times, and I am as guilty as anyone here of doing it... so I am not judging) quote:
Here's my question...if I start a thread, I have no objection to derailment, humor, laughter and all sorts of frivolity. Does that work? Is there an exception for whom the OP is and their wishes? We all know that the OP doesn't own the thread and it is just "out there"
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