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cab
Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 32429
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Gervase wrote: |
It's the way it is. If you don't like it, tough. It's happened before (and I think the banning of Silas was far more reprehensible than the recent ejection of toys from prams), and it'll happen again. It's the way of things. |
Is it? Its not how I've seen things elsewhere. This seems to be a phenomenon common here and in the narrow area of fora split from River Cottage and Downsizer.
I don't believe it is unavoidable, but it seems to be problem that is inherent to this little backwater of the internet. It seems to be wired in to how these sites operate.
People get banned from web fora for repeatedly breaking rules, and generally you'll get a little bitching, whereas Downsizer gets days of whining, with the moderators saying nothing until someone snaps back at people.
Do you really think that there is no other way? You (and others) are right to hilight that its a web site, and that people should look at a wider context rather than this, but from doing so my perspective is that this phenomenon is very peculiar.
You're right that this is very reminiscent of Silas being banned. History repeating itself like this surely tells us that there is something to be resolved here, and while I have every sympathy for the Mods here (they're in an unenviable position) just hoping that this dies down and goes away won't address that problem.
Bluntly, other sites on other topics manage without this kind of thing. Why can't Downsizer and related sites?
I don't offer any solutions for any specific bans here; I wasn't party to why that happened there, I don't know. But I do know that the aftermath is the same as we've seen before; do we want this to keep happening? I'd have said, no. |
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