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Merv

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Date Posted: 21:22:26 01/08/04 Thu

Rick Wrote:
Me: Hi Merv, Glad to see you here. You make some interesting points and I understand where you are coming from but in response to the above statement let me just say this. Even the most exclusive County Clubs in the world have rules that the paying members MUST observe or lose the PRIVILEGE of being a member. MONEY BACK does not apply when the error is knowing violation of the rules. Seems to me that a website, list or discussion board could do exactly the same thing. The onus is on the member NOT the board for gross violation of the rules.

Hi Rick,

Thanks for replying. I agree with you but the error will not be so easy to determine with a message board. You will see a hostile remark and the person will be replying to what they consider to be another hostile remark which the first person did not think was hostile but corrective. You can't really ban hostile remarks so easily. You can ban profanity or repetitive bad will harassing or rudeness but those must be determined by the moderator and this does create some conflict between the board moderator and some of it's mambers. I didn't see that much of this on the web board but it seems it was enough to cause Roy to want to get rid of the problem.

Rick: In reference to bashing. I think that people SHOULD correct others but it should never include insulting name calling as opposed to plain spokeness. This is a difficult subject to get consensus on as there are plenty of different understandings of the difference between the two, and as you and Sunny have said, it is difficult enough to correct someone through written word without benefit of seeing a facial expression, so anything but plain spokeness, IMO, often helps to create an enemy where that intention was otherwise.

Merv: I agree with you. What is "tough love" on a message board? Isn't it the appearance of hostility...an insulting or degrading remark designed to get a reaction? The person will not see any love there at all. They will just reply in kind and it will evolve.

Merv: Honestly I don't know what Roy expected with the message board. When you have over 800 people signed up on a discussion board, there is going to be some trouble. You can count on it. We don't have a membership of over 800 angels out there. If you let one person be rude or insulting to another, the receiver is going to want to return it in kind. If Roy does not want any of this, the discussion board is out of place on the website and should be private as this one is. It is really up to Roy what he wants for the website. It is his website.

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