[atlantaprog] Re: Moderation

I'll be honest with ya'll. I'm getting sick of moderating this list. There's only so much I can do, and everything I do seems to piss SOMEONE off.

Allen, with all due respect, that's their problem. I mean, it's not as if this list has seen much traffic lately; I suspect that most of us have vented sufficiently and that the worst is over.

Besides, there is just going to be *some* bickering. As long as it's at a manageable level, it'll be OK. Remember, "the perfect is the enemy of the good."

If someone hurts someone's feelings, or someone has an opinion about how someone is reacting to another - then PLEASE contact them individually and don't perpetuate these threads on the list.

Agreed totally. But I do want to open my big mouth about something...

Meanwhile, if someone is willing to take over as moderator (or co-moderator) - contact me off-list and lets talk about it. ...you have to able to take a lot of criticism, because BY GOLLY, you'll get it!

To be honest, I'd say that's one of the criteria for being a *poster*.

You know, I spend too much time on Usenet, and this sort of thing is par for the course (which you found out once for yourself, I know). What I have to explain is that ill feeling is actually pretty low on many such groups; when people in newsgroups finally meet (which does happen--there are even yearly newsgroup conventions), they generally get along pretty well. What's on the newsgroup stays on the newsgroup. Why? Because deep down, those of us who keep in touch genuinely care about each other in the end, and we always remember that. I'm sure you've come across friends or colleagues or people in a relationship who it seems argue and fight all the time, but still seem to remember that they care about each other; well, that's often how it is in a healthy newsgroup. We understand that people simply will have radically different viewpoints on things, and in all honesty it's probably better that they have flame wars on a newsgroup than shouting matches or even fisticuffs in the physical world.

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