Re: MTAI moderation
- From: "Gregory Morrow" <gregorymorrow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 8 Oct 2005 10:45:06 -0700
JF Mezei wrote:
> Cyrus Afzali wrote:
> > I never said I did and I never said I didn't think it wasn't a good
> > idea to recusitate the group. I do, however, think you're a poor
> > person to be put in charge of moderating a newsgroup on the subject at
> > hand given your rabid, and on many instances uninformed, views.
>
> The role of a moderator is to filter out posts submitted which do not
> follow established guidelines. If it's not related to aviation industry,
> it is bounced. It it gets personnal, it is filtered out etc. It has
> nothing to do with my knolwedge or lack thereof about aviation industry.
>
>
> Except for obvious spam, I have not yet bounced anything. There are
> problems with the moderating software which automatically bounce posts
> coming from many news servers which don't feed perfectly formatted
> messages, but there is not much more I can do about this. We don't pay
> for the moderation service/software and the provider insists on
> maintaining those strict rules.
>
> Some spam has gotten through and it is then a question of following up
> with the submitting news server so thay can track down their user who
> forged the moderation headers.
>
> As I said before, if you are not happy with the moderation of the
> newsgroup, you can complain to all moderators. If you look at the
> archives of the group, you will find all necessary information as well
> as pointers to the group's charter and posting guidelines.
>
> If you do not have any examples of poor moderation of the newsgroup,
> stop making unwarranted accusations and stick to rec.travel.air to
> discuss Ellen, Sheryl and all those other fetishes that Greg Morrow and
> all his aliases have.
Lol...you have a lover's crush on me, Mezei...???
> > To me, when someone takes on a role in moderating a group, they have
> > an obligation to be informed about the subject at hand.
>
> Moderation involves simply processing posts and preventing totally off
> topic posts from getting thorugh, and in circumstances where there is a
> flame war, cool things down.
>
> > I'm not blaming them for anything. They volunteered just like you
> > volunteered. It's a nice group, when it's functioning properly.
>
> I also made it expliocit to the others that I would bow out if my
> presence was a hindrance to the group's success. I have gotten no such
> sugesstions by the other moderators. If you are avoiding posting simply
> because I exist, then it is your problem. In fact, majority of posts
> gets approved by the other moderators since they tend to get to the
> approval requests before I can.
>
> There was one recent event where one post was rejected by mistake by one
> moderator and I re-injected it and approved it.
>
>
> > participation continues to decline. Most of the posting in the new
> > m.t.a.i. is among the co-moderators.
>
> And if people like you stopped criticising the newsgroups without any
> specific criticisms, perhaps we'd have more success growing participation.
>
> > Again, my issue is not so much with the job you and anyone else is
> > doing with m.t.a.i.
>
> So stop complaining about misc.transportyy-air-industry. If you have no
> complaints about his the newsgroup is functioning, if you have no
> complaints about the contents that do make it to mtai, then you have no
> reason to posts messages as the one to which I am replying, and you have
> no reason to abstain from participating in the group.
>
> Plenty of people hate me because I do not support the USA's current
> policies, and that includes one of the moderators, but it doesn't mean
> that we can't do a professional job moderating an aviation newsgroup
> that discusses business aspects. There has been no or extremely little
> "politics" in that newsgroup.
No, they hate you because you are fairly clueless and stupid. Your
anti - Yank obsession is just an outgrowth of the sorts of masturbatory
fantasies that you love to engage in...
> >My point is that your remarks about the U.S. and
> > its policies are uniformed and in many cases offensive.
>
> I have made no such remarks in mtai.
>
>
> > a COWARD who's afraid to post under his own name in one newsgroup on
> > air travel,
>
>
> I wish you the full wrath of nomen on you, including forged identities
> forever archived in so many web sites with slander against you. If that
> were to happen to you, you'd fully understand why I cannot post under my
> own name in this newsgroup. Complain to Greg Morrow and friends if ytou
> dislike many posteres not using their real names.
Bollocks...
> There have been plenty of people who had stopped using real names in
> this newsgroup over the years. Most of which have left due to Nomen and friends.
Lol...I've never seen a bigger load of rubbish in my life...
YOU are the primary reason why so many left rec.travel.air. Had
nothing to do with me, your friend Nomen, or those other mysterious
daemons and spirits that follow you around all the time...
--
Best
Greg
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