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hyperlexian wrote:
there was nothing derogatory about anybody in my post. here's another analogy to try to explain what i meant:
Dox47 becoming a moderator would be like an animal-hater becoming a veterinarian.
do you see how i used an example as a comparison to demonstrate the irony? i am not calling Dox47 an animal-hater or a luddite... would you like another example, or do you get it now?
Dox47 becoming a moderator would be like an animal-hater becoming a veterinarian.
do you see how i used an example as a comparison to demonstrate the irony? i am not calling Dox47 an animal-hater or a luddite... would you like another example, or do you get it now?
Luddite is sort of an ironic comparison since I'm a gunsmith/machinist that builds my own tools when I'm not posting here, but I digress. The better analogy would be I'd moderate like a cheapskate planning a dinner party; using the smallest amount that would do the job. I don't hate the mods or moderation, I just view them as the last resort rather than the first.
This is all academic anyway, there's no way Alex would ever offer me the job, though I appreciate the compliment 'Keet.
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18 Oct 2010, 9:02 am
Dox47 wrote:
hyperlexian wrote:
there was nothing derogatory about anybody in my post. here's another analogy to try to explain what i meant:
Dox47 becoming a moderator would be like an animal-hater becoming a veterinarian.
do you see how i used an example as a comparison to demonstrate the irony? i am not calling Dox47 an animal-hater or a luddite... would you like another example, or do you get it now?
Dox47 becoming a moderator would be like an animal-hater becoming a veterinarian.
do you see how i used an example as a comparison to demonstrate the irony? i am not calling Dox47 an animal-hater or a luddite... would you like another example, or do you get it now?
Luddite is sort of an ironic comparison since I'm a gunsmith/machinist that builds my own tools when I'm not posting here, but I digress. The better analogy would be I'd moderate like a cheapskate planning a dinner party; using the smallest amount that would do the job. I don't hate the mods or moderation, I just view them as the last resort rather than the first.
This is all academic anyway, there's no way Alex would ever offer me the job, though I appreciate the compliment 'Keet.
Moderation ought to be the last resort. How would anyone like it at a job if anytime they mildly offended some random customer or coworker they got a threat from management in an office hidden away from public scrutiny? Too many people today are just plain way too easily offended. I think there ought to be more Equal Opportunity Offenders© such as Carlos Mencia and Brad Stine.
Anyhow, you're welcome.
18 Oct 2010, 9:11 am
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Dox47 wrote:
hyperlexian wrote:
there was nothing derogatory about anybody in my post. here's another analogy to try to explain what i meant:
Dox47 becoming a moderator would be like an animal-hater becoming a veterinarian.
do you see how i used an example as a comparison to demonstrate the irony? i am not calling Dox47 an animal-hater or a luddite... would you like another example, or do you get it now?
Dox47 becoming a moderator would be like an animal-hater becoming a veterinarian.
do you see how i used an example as a comparison to demonstrate the irony? i am not calling Dox47 an animal-hater or a luddite... would you like another example, or do you get it now?
Luddite is sort of an ironic comparison since I'm a gunsmith/machinist that builds my own tools when I'm not posting here, but I digress. The better analogy would be I'd moderate like a cheapskate planning a dinner party; using the smallest amount that would do the job. I don't hate the mods or moderation, I just view them as the last resort rather than the first.
This is all academic anyway, there's no way Alex would ever offer me the job, though I appreciate the compliment 'Keet.
Moderation ought to be the last resort. How would anyone like it at a job if anytime they mildly offended some random customer or coworker they got a threat from management in an office hidden away from public scrutiny? Too many people today are just plain way too easily offended. I think there ought to be more Equal Opportunity Offenders© such as Carlos Mencia and Brad Stine.
Anyhow, you're welcome.
that kind of moderation isn't the case in any one of the forums on WP, so it's a non-issue really. people being mildly offended is not the problem, and nobody has suggested that slightly offensive posts should be moderated.
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18 Oct 2010, 9:33 am
hyperlexian wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Dox47 wrote:
hyperlexian wrote:
there was nothing derogatory about anybody in my post. here's another analogy to try to explain what i meant:
Dox47 becoming a moderator would be like an animal-hater becoming a veterinarian.
do you see how i used an example as a comparison to demonstrate the irony? i am not calling Dox47 an animal-hater or a luddite... would you like another example, or do you get it now?
Dox47 becoming a moderator would be like an animal-hater becoming a veterinarian.
do you see how i used an example as a comparison to demonstrate the irony? i am not calling Dox47 an animal-hater or a luddite... would you like another example, or do you get it now?
Luddite is sort of an ironic comparison since I'm a gunsmith/machinist that builds my own tools when I'm not posting here, but I digress. The better analogy would be I'd moderate like a cheapskate planning a dinner party; using the smallest amount that would do the job. I don't hate the mods or moderation, I just view them as the last resort rather than the first.
This is all academic anyway, there's no way Alex would ever offer me the job, though I appreciate the compliment 'Keet.
Moderation ought to be the last resort. How would anyone like it at a job if anytime they mildly offended some random customer or coworker they got a threat from management in an office hidden away from public scrutiny? Too many people today are just plain way too easily offended. I think there ought to be more Equal Opportunity Offenders© such as Carlos Mencia and Brad Stine.
Anyhow, you're welcome.
that kind of moderation isn't the case in any one of the forums on WP, so it's a non-issue really. people being mildly offended is not the problem, and nobody has suggested that slightly offensive posts should be moderated.
I believe sinsboldly posted a little while ago on this thread, just prior to my nomination of Dox47 even. Sinsboldly, do you have anything to say about moderation here in the past?
