05-03-2012, 09:45 PM
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Re: Address the topic, not the author
Yeah, having done the mod gig for a couple years on AOL, I've made that point. You train mods, you tell them they're supposed to model good behavior, "smile from the wrists down" (yeah cracked me up too,) etc. etc. And above all, you enforced ad hom rules. It's a well-known principle, and one they just don't do here. It falls under the rubric of "the rules are looser on the political forum because you're all a buncha hotheads etc."
Given that I don't have the time to be a mod here, I'm not about to pound away on that solution. When I've brought it up, it seemed like this Utopian solution to the board brass, like it's sooooo hard to decide when someone is going after a person rather than their arguments.
It's incredibly simple. There are gray areas but there are gray areas either way. You can walk a fine line, but you can walk a fine line either way.
It's probably the single most effective rule (no ad hom attacks) for improving the quality of a board like this -- but it's apparently not what we do here.
Que sera sera.
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