[sumo] Re: Moderation

[Angie]

Barbara, would you please put the address of your blog in a sig at the end of
your posts?  I keep losing my bookmarks and forgetting where I've put it...<g>

Thanks!

Angie in Texas, US


--- Barbara Ann <baklein at attglobal.net> wrote:

> To me, although no one asked for my opinion, moderation = censorship. The
> other poster who questioned the determination of post acceptability by one
> person is absolutely correct. We have gone along for a number of years
> without this procedure. At one point, Joe K-jo did step in (I was even
> peripherally involved in that incident), but the fact is that the
> complainers are very few compared to the population of the list. Just tally
> up the ayes and nays - or better yet, the non-respondents.
> 
> I hate football, hockey and most other sports, but I would never castigate
> those posters for going on about that. I just hit "delete". I may not agree
> with the perceived politics in the link from Emmett's post, so I just
> stopped reading. But that does not change my very high regard for Emmett nor
> my awareness that he is in harm's way through no fault of his own. Again, to
> know that someone has a boy in Iraq, or that there is a nurse on our list
> that was in the center of the medical volunteer corps on September 11 - that
> makes the list a list with camaraderie that you may not find in other lists.
> No need for a separate "sumo - off-topic" list. How would we know these
> things about our fellow ML-ers, or if and when they may need some kind
> words?
> 
> We have never been quite anonymous to one another, anyway. A few have
> written of their travails on this list, with nothing less than encouraging
> comments from the rest of us. Others have likely received some form of hate
> mail personally. Some of us are neurotic, other confident, others arrogant,
> and others just self-promoting. We have had our share of flame wars. But the
> complaints are so few and far between, and Joe is doing such a wonderful
> job, let's just let it be.
> 
> Now, I need to get back to my blog on yesterday's soken:-)
> 
> Barbara Ann Klein aka Babaryutaikai aka BRTK, formerly Babanoshuzan
> 
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