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Date Posted: 6/09/07 3:48:46am
Author: Lou Ellen (Good Luck Jo!)
Subject: Re: A mesage TO the moderator
In reply to: Jo 's message, "Re: A mesage TO the moderator" on 5/09/07 5:05:56pm

>Hi Lou and Virulent
>Thank you Lou for the suggestion, I can tell you are
>trying to help, however I have no intention of
>censoring the chat here as I believe that freedom of
>speech is very important even when offensive things
>are being said. It is not up to me to monitor what
>people say. I just encourage people to try and say it
>a civil manner (it is much more efficient that way too
>and more stuff gets done). Plus this board is fairly
>low tech. I don't have a function like the one you
>describe available to me. Pretty much my only
>moderation option is to delete whole threads, which as
>I said I am loathe to do.
>


>

>
>>Dear Lou,
>Your posting smacks at the heart of free speak. How
>can it be free speech if a poor overworked moderator
>(or even a cpu program) has to sort through every
>mailing to make sure "hateful or derogatory" wordinds
>dont slip through the cracks.
>I agree these cpu programs do exist, I personally had
>to use one on a website I used to run that got over
>run by hoards of idiotic Christians trying to 'bait
>the sinning witches'. But I found I was losing a lot
>of interesting posts because the program dumped
>everything with the words that Id programmed into it
>to look out for.
>A.s.i.o. uses something similar when looking for
>postings that use the words like 'bomb'. Rather
>unfortunate don't you agree if it was someone trying
>to sell you a car that was a bit of a bomb, but apart.
>from a few minor mechanical problems ran well.
>I was a bit of a posting freak over the past two
>weeks, but as Jo will attest I have apologized to
>those that I feel deserve it. I have even explained my
>actions, and as yet am still waiting for a reply from
>Jo as to how, if in anyway I can help out.
>So please don't suggest methods that censor postings
>that simply don't work, unless you wish to hold your
>hand up for the position of 'postings censor', then
>please contact Jo as moderator or whoever runs this
>site and offer your assistance.
>But I guess then you would have to be totally unbiased
>:}
>
>>> Hi Moderator, Jo. Sometimes I put
>>in my 2 cents worth & it might not appeal to
>>others,but I Do try to answer questions as helpfully
>>as I can. I am writing this to You because of the
>>warning you gave a few people Re:: Vampire
>>Connections. I too have noticed that often
>>things stray from the original point,sometimes even
>>becoming hateful. Some chat lines have a set up so
>>that if a person uses certain words or phrases, their
>>message will Not appear until cleaned up. This is an
>>automatic system. Yet others monitor each & every
>>message as they are sent so that
>>'unacceptable'messages are simply NOT posted. People
>>soon get the hint. Maybe you could do something
>>similar,rather than deleting topics that have become
>>heated. ...Freedom of Speech With Responsibility!
>> "Weave Brightly" Lou Ellen.
>>>>> Well, "Good Luck Jo". Can't do much more than what you're doing now if the technology is limited. Better you than me though. Surely you'd have a better chance of summoning the devil(a rather nasty creature),& expecting it to behave!,than you would curb the language of SOME. Fortunately it's just a few. Bye Bye,"Weave Brightly"....Lou Ellen.

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