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Aswad -> RE: NO MODERATION ALLOWED (9/29/2012 2:32:32 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Kana
it appears to me that it's more folk who have entrenched opinions shouting over each other than actual discussion too much of the time.
This is an important thing to me. I don't think an unmoderated section will result in anything other than that. Used to be that P&R was an outlet, a recognition of the fact that we have other interests than kink and aren't disconnected from world events. Lately, though, it has a lot of regular streaming of stuff which is pretty much baiting and which quickly degenerates into something unproductive that doesn't even resemble intelligent conversation. Not that all conversation has to be intelligent, but I do have preferences.
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I would bet that we've lost lots lots more long term posters here due to moderation issues than any P/R fiasco's.
Although mostly an incidental effect (e.g. what you said about how some things can seem; correct moderation resulting in an incorrect outcome, just like anywhere people "game the system"), I think this may be correct.
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5-I totally agree re the arpig incident and the way it's changed the forums.Thanks Buddy, you fucked up shit for lots and lots of folk so you could have your twisted fun.
Not to get bogged down in this, but the postmortem on that trainwreck is worthy of a thread all of its own, although I don't think such a thread will be possible without either diligent self-moderation or external moderation, simply because of the level of emotion involved in what happened for a lot of the people involved. Bob started the causal chain, and it's fair to put that on him. We all had a million points along the way where we could have averted what eventually happened, however, without ever taking the opportunity to do so. Pinning it all on Bob isn't going to avoid it happening again. It takes two to tango, and there were more than two people in the mosh pit, to keep mixing the metaphors.
IWYW,
— Aswad.
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