Hey hey hey-

 

Corey has done us all a great favor in hosting this site and a great job in working out the bugs. Thanks! I'd like to bring up a topic for discussion. Not sure where to put this, but since it ultimately applies to every member, perhaps everybody ought to have some input. Corey, as I understood him, is happy to administrate the site but doesn't relish policing it as moderator. Perhaps we can all come up with a short policy statement that would serve as a guideline for online behavior. It would help Corey out. As administrator he's still the only person who can actually take action (tecnically) if action is to be taken regarding an unruley member. So perhaps we can all post our thoughts and give Corey something to work with.

 

My suggestions. These are not necessarily things that require disciplinary action (some are):

 

1) A per day, per week, or per month posting option for Corey to limit the number of posts a member posts. We faced this a bit at our previous address (members posting high numbers of posts, overwhelming the site so to speak).

 

2) Common sense courtesy.

 

3) Keep the "subject" the subject and not the "person" the subject. Rude, condescending, personal comments shouldn't be allowed. I think we should really stick to this (I didn't do so well on the previous site I don't think), but perhaps a three-strike policy. You get a first warning, a second, and with the third you're gone. Only Corey can issue a warning. Corey, perhaps you can form a committee of two or four (to form an odd number when including yourself) others to help you in this. Let members recommend to you via private email a member they think would serve with you. You take their top vote getter (or top two vote getters). Then you get to pick one or two of your own. Together, these members can keep an eye on things for you. If a member gets unruly and there are problems, all of your together can decide what to do. That would take the load off of you and members will know that if they ever are banned, it's not just because one person (the Administrator) made an independent decision. They'll know it was a consensus of trusted members who made the choice. Just an idea.

 

4) Some policy needs to be recognized regarding cut-n-pasting material from other sites. At our previous address we had to deal with posting swaths of material from other sites. We tried to have members post the URL only, or just a bit (paragraph) of the material. We preferred members to express things in their own words.

 

5) Banned members. This may be a sticky subject, but I'm of the opinion that THIS site should honor the list of banned members from the previous site. Corey should be able to find out who those members were and simply ban them here as well. True, this is a 'new' site, but's it's a new site 'venue'. We're all the same members and we carried over the same threads and history. I think we ought to carry over the same banned members list to avoid having to go through encountering them here and banning them again. If you were banned before on this site, you should remain banned on the new venue.

 

That's it for me.

 

Tom

 

 

 

 

Post Edited (JEE) : 1/17/2005 9:37:32 AM (GMT-6)