Hi Dennis,
Thanks for offering to moderate. You're on.
I do think that it would be good to disallow messages that get personal.
Honest skepticism should be allowed.
Personal attacks should not.
If a person levels a personal attack, they will be put on moderated status. If they keep posting things that the moderator keeps from going to the list for reasons of being inappropriate, then their ability to post will be removed.
Things should also be kept on the topic of Mylow's motor designs.
Sterling
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 2:14 PM
Subject: [mylow_magmo] Baffling - as to why membership is not moderated
Hi Allan,
It's a little baffling to me as to why the forum members who are deriding Mylow are not stripped of their membership.
I don't claim to be an expert on online forums but I have seen forums run quite smoothly. The rare occasional disrupter is thrown out. The amount of negativity on this forum is simply enormous. Skepticism is fine but not casual remarks like 'X' is a fraud. Sometimes the dividing line between being open enough and over-moderation can be thin - but all in all moderation is a good idea.
Am I missing out on something in my observations?
Ok - rather that point out imperfections - I'll offer myself as a co-moderator (to throw out the bad guys) incase you have had difficulty finding people to take on that task. I must warn that I would not have the time to do any more than that. I'm more of a stalker than an active member.
Dennis
--- In mylow_magmo@yahoogroups.com, "Sterling D. Allan" <sterlingda@...> wrote:
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> I'm honored to be counted as a close and trusted friend of Mylow's. He's a great person with a very big heart, and very brave. He doesn't deserve the treatment he's been getting, either from the MIB or from the forum members who are deriding him.
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> Sterling
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