Forum Archive Index - March 2001

["Colin Ross" <ceejaynz@xtra.co.nz>]

Thank you Will for your cool head and good balance.
This kerfuffle is interesting to me only in so far as the fact that the most
offensive postings  I have seen  have been the ill-spelled and bad-mouthed
 surely a sign of meagre intelligence and vocabluary)

 - COMPLAINTS.

The Delete button works like a charm


Ceejay


----- Original Message -----
From: Will Bryant <will@sharechat.co.nz>
To: <sharechat@sharechat.co.nz>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [sharechat] Fw: May the FORCE be with you all


>
> >Without wishing to be a pain Will, is it not technically possible
> >for Sharechat (you or whoever) to actually remove postings
> >as has been done in the past. And presumably to also prevent
> Yes we do and have done - I removed the offensive ones as soon as I got in
> the door earlier today.  (Of course there's nothing I can do about those
> who receive the forum by email).
>
> >emails/postings from certain nuisances from actually getting on
> >once they've blotted their copybook?
> Yes, we always do that as well (if they should later make a worthwhile
> posts we will allow them through).
>
> >I assume that Sharechat is not resource rich enough to have
> >someone constantly monitoring and that therefore there are lags
> >before something is done. But is it difficult for the something to
> >cover removing the offending email (e.g. the one Faizal was
> >complaining about) and the subsequent comments?
> In the interests of not making the archives rather confusing, we prefer to
> remove only the offensive material.
>
> Removing the further comments gets messy, as people post replies to
> messages which aren't in the archive and those replies will be shown until
> we remove them, etc - in the end it gets very hard for someone visiting
the
> archive to work out what people are talking about; so instead we try to
> censor as little as possible.
>
> Please note that I think that it's often fairly clear to us all when
> something is offensive, and I would say that often the best thing that
> forum members can do is to delete & ignore it - should we need to we'll
> remove it when we get the chance, so messages complaining about it really
> just add to the noise.
>
> As for removing things like this thread, which isn't offensive but is
> definitely off-topic and inappropriate, well, that's just a judgement
call,
> but as I say we try not to censor any more than we have to.
>
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