Re: Blacklisted on UK Legal Moderated, is it forever?

Cynic wrote:
On 23 Feb 2006 21:10:38 -0800, "Ben" <v_geterix@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Joe Lee wrote:


You wander lonely as a clod with all your paranoia,
And few are they who could expect worse,
But in desperation to conceal your frustrations,
You actually provide full evidence in verse.

The point being that no mod should let any derogatory post through onto
UKLM, now I know you dont seem to get that point.

But try cos If you can to understand that point, then progress canbe be
made.


The moderators do not want to deal with a person who may well be
intent of getting an insulting post through moderation, using all the
tricks in the book to do so, so that the post looks harmless on the
surface and will be passed unless the moderator is extremely vigilant
- checking all referenced URLs, looking for innuendo and hidden
meanings etc. Nor do we want a huge number of posts that are
borderline and give rise to endless arguments and accusations about
whether it should or should not have been passed, and insulting posts
replying to threads in uklm being posted to ukl.

The moderator is the *last* safety-net, and is not there to rescue
posters from their own lack of self-control. If huge heaps of
unacceptable posts are made, there is bound to be human mistakes that
result in a few inadvertently getting through. The system depends
upon the fact that all but a tiny minority of posts will be perfectly
acceptable.


I had rather thought of the moderated group as being a safety net version of "uk legal" for those who don't like or can't deal with the "rough and tumble" that goes on here. I can't really see why anyone who can give as good as he gets would want to post there rather than here. "Here" gives them so much more freedom in expressing whatever they want, however they want to express it.

In the few months that I have been using both groups - I haven't detected that the advice given in one group or another has been significiantly better. In many cases the advice may have been given in a considerably more forthright way here - but it has basically been the same advice.

I think some people may have the wrong view that the moderated group is say the chess club at school full of clever nerds, whereas the unmoderated is the card school behind the shed.. I would suggest that it is far more just different areas of the same school yard - the moderated bit is where the kids scared of being beaten up go, the unmoderated one is the rest of the playground including the bit out of sight of everyone - where you can have a *** and play games teacher wouldn't approve of... But the people there wouldn't dream of wanting to be under the teacher's beady little eyes...

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Sue
Doesn't smoke any more...










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