Re: [ga] List moderation

[Dan Steinberg <dstein@travel-net.com>]

I fail to see the relevance of this argument to the GA list. Am I the
only one who wishes it werent here? If this were a bar, Id be asking
Joop and Bradley (and maybe a few others) to take it outside.
This isn't moderation BTW. 

Joop Teernstra wrote:
> 
> Please excuse me that I refute some of Bradley's falsehoods here.
> Some of this is relevant to the problem at hand.
> 
> At 02:53 PM 10/11/1999 -0800, idno@tallship.net wrote:
> 
> >Only if you are certain to fenagle the adoption of the rules you wrote.
> >The ORSC Rules of Civil Discourse are what is now in effect until such
> >time that a charter is ratified, but that is not what you want so you will
> >not permit the passwords out to moderators.
> >
> ??? There are no moderators and there were no moderators.  This is exactly
> what is the weakness of the ORSC rules. Nobody wants to moderate in the
> middle of a mudslinging fest
> 
> >You are guilty of attempted censorship yourself! You demanded on the
> >IDNO's SC list that Joe Abley remove Crisp and Crock and JW on no one's
> >authority but your own - and you have never even been a member of the SC
> >YOU HAD NO AUTHORITY TO DO SO!!!
> 
> That is right. And that is why it never happened. That is why Joe, who
> really has the control over the list did not follow my suggestion (and not
> only mine!) on JW .
> Nobody, not even yourself, has been censored on the IDNO list, in spite of
> the most uncivil and offensive behaviour.
> What you call fascism was the prevention of a little coup d'etat in the
> initial SC, (an attempt to have one side of the argument volunteer as
> unaccountable "moderator" under ORSC rules)  and falling back on the will
> of the membership.
> The only force I could use, was the force of argument.
> 
> Your accusation (of twisting the polling booth text) is false.It was agreed
> that both camps would have their viewpoints represented. Even members who
> preferred your option testified that it was a fair representation of both
> points of view. (direct democracy vs. representational model) The result
> was an even split of the vote.
> After that, the re-railing proposal (a compromise) was adopted by
> overwhelming majority.
> 
> --Joop Teernstra LL.M.--  , bootstrap  of
> the Cyberspace Association,
> the constituency for Individual Domain Name Owners
> http://www.idno.org  (or direct:)
> http://www.democracy.org.nz/idno/

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Dan Steinberg

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