12.06.2007 18:11:55, Ingvar Nilsen writes:
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David Farrell-Garcia writes:
>I am a guest.
I on my side am a customer since 1995. I regard the treatment my
opinions get here from the moderators being identical to the way
CodeGear treats me, or wants to treat me, as its customer.
Allowing their moderator(s) to cancel my messages and spice the
cancellations with an arrogant grin here and a childish comment there,
Cancellations are normal, unless you want to get something like Usenet,
full of spam, vile language, etc. But what do you mean with "spice the
cancelleations with an arrogant grin here and a childish comment there"?
Anyway, no one really likes to be cancelled. But that does not mean
that a cancellation is done for childish purposes or because the
moderator doesn't like the person being cancelled. I know that many
assume this, because hardly anyone ever sees anything wrong with their
own posts, so they assume it "must be" bias, but that is pure rubbish.
I the light of this, I can imagine that a certain comment is
misinterpreted as arrogant or childish, while it was probably just an
attempt to be funny.
The fact that we use our judgement when interpeting the guidelines
(note that these are not called "guidelines" for nothing) means that we
don't all think exactly alike, but generally, we do agree on what
should be cancelled and what shouldn't, and if we are not sure, we
discuss such items internally.
If TeamB or CodeGear had the impression that one of us abused the
cancel powers for personal purposes, that would immediately be
discussed, and the person doing that would be taken to task. We have
our own private newsgroups, where we discuss a lot of issues, and
cancellations (i.e. if someone is overdoing it, or if we - or some of
us - find a cancellation was not justified) are an important part of
that.
So the impression that there are TeamB member running loose and
cancelling to their heart's desire is pure nonsense. The others would
immediately step in if they found so.
IOW, we are our own strictest critics. The fact that this is all done
in private makes it not so obvious for you, newsgroup users, but be
assured that we are very critical of ourselves and our team mates.
--
Rudy Velthuis [TeamB]
rvelthuis.de
"Quoting Coulter is kind of like quoting Joe McCarthy; no doubt
it does well when you're pandering to a group of like-minded hate
mongerers, but it earns you a well-deserved reputation as a
vicious, mean-spirited airhead and intellecual lightweight in
more analytical and dispassionate circles."
-- Mark Vaughan in borland.public.off-topic