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[+] [-] This is for M. Shaftoe
What concerns do you have? What are the causes?
Well, you, Life Critic, formerly toksik, and ---, formerly Te, formerly the Cosmic Fireman. You both took the view that banning the Fetch for his anti-semitism was a mistake, as seen in a thread recently linked to elsewhere in the policy.
I did wonder out loud if it were a mistake, yeah. I don't think I was convinced either way so much as uncertain.
I gave my reasons for wondering, and I didn't at any point suggest my opinion should be considered as anything other than one of many opinions. I was, as always, willing to be convinced.
Surely we want mods who will examine issues from as many angles as posible? Surely the fact that some of us think differently helps stop barbelith from becoming staid?
Genuinely, I don't understand why I was wrong to talk about the benefits of conflictin a thread discussing conflict.
Further, I don't see the point of distributed moderation without people whose opinions sometimes differ.
You also thought I wanted to shoot you for being a dissident.
Well, to be honest I didn't really believe you would shoot me. I mean, you appeared to be a dude threatening people over the internet, and experience tells me that threats to stab people in the face, set fire to them or drown their kittens are rarely real, and can be taken as expressions of vehement dislike.
It is a bit intimidating to have threats(albeit unconvincing threats) of violence made and i objected on those grounds.
It didn't literally make me fear for my life, or those of the other folks in your virtual sights.
Since then, I have not been convinced that either you [...]have really demonstrated that you are responsible enough to be involved in banning moderations.
And I don't think you demonstrate the necessary will to understand. I do value some of your other traits, however, and I feel that distributed moderation ensures that where you lack others take up the slack.
I disagree that I am not responsible enough, but then of course I do. I'm sure you think you are understanding enough.
For some time now, you have only seemed to rear your head to "ask questions" in a way that turns threads into teeth-grindingly wrong-end-of-sticktastic wrangles between yourself and other moderators.
This is unfair, and suggests(as do some of your other comments) that you are reading selectively. When my questions to Randy were taken as insincere there was some misunderstanding, sure. I'm not sure how that was entirely my fault, however.
Most recently, your claims (that the biggest problem Barbelith has is established posters being too mean when people want to discuss The Invisibles) do not suggest a level head or clarity of perception.
Again, I feel you are misrepresenting my opinion. I didn't say that this was the biggest problem. I said it was something I had noticed and that it was not conduicive to enticing new members.
Basically?
I accept that I am not a perfect moderator, either in your eyes or in a more general sense.
I don't feel anyone is, but I think that distributed moderation seems a system that was designed to take exactly that human fallibbility into account.
On a related note, I think your stated unwillingness to read PMs sent to you by posters you have decided are unworthy of your correspondence seems unlike good moderation practice. It certainly caused problems between us, as i'm sure you recall.
It isn't something I would require you to hand in your badge over, because your flaws are balnced of by your strengths and further taken care of by those of the other members to whom moderation is distributed.
On a more tenuously related point, I suggest that your decision to ignore my messages suggests that the sentiment of your statement elsewhere;
I try to give people the benefit of the doubt when I meet them in person, but your subsequent persistent amateur contrarianism has exhausted the patience of myself
is false, at least in part. You had made your mind up about me long before we met in London, and your attitude towards has shown no signs of change except that you were reticent to challenge me in person.
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