Klarinet Archive - Posting 000552.txt from 2006/03

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] editorial comments
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:12:31 -0500


Walter Grabner wrote,
>Obviously I did miss something. After checking
>the Clarinet Bulletin Board, I can see there was a
>lot of speculation and finally some rather nasty finger
>pointing.
>
>It's hard to know when and if censorship needs to
>come in. I have in the past complained about "editing"
>when it clearly only supports the opinion of the
>moderator. I do have a problem with "closing a thread,
>as it closes off the opportunity to comment or rebut
>other's assertions.

GBK's extremely aggressive monitoring of the bulletin board is why I don't
participate there more often. I do check the BB at least once a week to
look for interesting threads, and sometimes I leave a message and then
check back on that thread while it's active. Often, however, he's already
cut off an interesting thread before I get there. It especially annoys me
when he closes a thread just because he thinks it's gone on long enough,
even though it's clearly on-topic. My next move is generally "Log Out"
when I find a thread like that.

>However, comments that are pointedly meant to be
>nasty, with nothing constructive added probably
>should just be deleted.

Yes. I don't mind if a forum allows only on-topic messages (as long as the
moderator enforces the dictum the same for everybody), and I have no
problem with forbidding and deleting malicious or spiteful messages. GBK
goes a lot farther than that, however--and imho, closing an entire thread
because one or two people behave badly is a disservice to the rest of the
participants.

>I think it is best, on any forum, when we all take the
>"high road" and avoid name calling and fingerpointing.
>I know that is not always easy - myself included.

Same here! That's *why* I log out, rather than comment, when I discover
that GBK has cut off yet another interesting thread....

Lelia Loban

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