DrewDad wrote:
I didn't say you don't think the community aspect is important, I said you've indicated, in the past, that the community is not the primary focus of the site. Perhaps the focus has changed.
I think what you are talking about is when I said that the exchange of information was the stated mission of the site and that the stuff like word games is not. But I think I also stated that those kind of things keep some people around who then do exchange information.
But that's just me. To each his own. I no longer find the games interesting and would certainly start ignoring them but I'd also like to see others be able to use the site in a very different way.
Quote:Nor did I indicate that I believe the downfall of the site/community is imminent.
If you didn't I apologize. Here's where I'm coming from: I know there is going to be a lot of unhappy folk when we launch the new site. Whether or not we actually changed the moderation it would be so and a bunch of people are going to claim that the new site sucks no matter whether it does or doesn't.
I expect to hear that the sky is falling and one of my coming tasks is to try to mitigate the rough spots in the transition. I do plan to communicate on all of this but this thread calling for banning a member is forcing my hand. This kind of public lynching is disgusting to me, and was never a part of the old moderation and I am in a bit of a bind trying to explain stuff with that angle and the fact that I was traveling when it started and did not have reliable internet access.
Quote:What I said is that I, for one, want to know what the standards of behvior are.
Give me some time. This is going to be a serious drain on my time when I tackle it but I will do it within the next two weeks.
Quote:Jespah publicly reprimanded cjhsa and me recently. I'm not bothered by the reprimand per se, but by what I perceive to be a double standard.
I think I saw that, and I think you may be wrong about not being bothered by it. Thing is, you need to take that up with her. We have a policy against official public reprimands so that's a personal issue between you guys. I know that personal anything from jespah or myself is a bit complex but it is what it is.
That complexity is a big part of why we can't do this very well in our current structure. Most of the sane folk want nothing to do with the job because of stuff like this.
I sure don't. My use of the site has been curbed a lot because of the demands of the social cost of running the site.
Quote:I think this is what is bothering the other folks as well.
I think there are a lot of different things bothering different people in different ways.
Some here are on the lynching bandwagon only, others are against the stated changes, and so on and so forth and I don't think it helps that many of the concerns are framed as if they speak for everyone.
In any case, I would like to address the community issues separately and not on this lynching thread. I don't want to contribute to it anymore.
If you guys want to talk community can you guys start different threads on it? I really don't want to keep feeding this one, I find it disgusting.
-not by euthanasia, of course, but by Coventry"
