Re: Provocative discussion of the nature of Coffeegeek

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:30:13 GMT, "Cordovero"
<cordoveroxxxremovexxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Then you may assume wrong. I'd be interested to know the facts on this, but
>it infer (perhaps incorrectly) that there is very little censoring on CG.
>Maybe there's a lot I don't know of. The last thing I saw was Mark telling
>a poster to refrain in the future from masquerading as a private seller when
>they're commercial. Pretty tame stuff. He didn't even delete their post,
>or stop the ad. I've seen a lot of stuff that I'm amazed isn't moderated.
>Maybe you all know Mark better than I, but it doesn't look like he steps in
>very much.

The moderating is very basic. We censor posts with profanity or
attacks on people's personality. We delete non-coffee spam and shut
down spammers accounts; we delete coffee related spam and tell the
people to do pay advertising instead.

We do NOT touch posts that characterize what others have said, or the
products and services of vendors (other than shilling spam). Nor do we
censor posts that question the usefulness or lack of it of others
coffee knowledge, or, even for that matter, the sanctity or sanity of
their political views. For instance, I can take out "you'll burn in
hell for that;" but alas have to let "your views are those of someone
who will burn in hell" pass.

It's free speech with enforced politeness and no commercials; more PBS
than big brother.

HOWEVER, most people posting have a somewhat more draconian view of
what the moderating means. There is an unfortunate dearth of "this is
complete balderdash" type posts to counter the spread of blather,
since most people think of that as a personal attack. It's the idea of
a moderated forum, rather than the details of the moderating, that
creates this excessive constraint on discussions.

--
jim schulman
<jim_schulman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
.

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