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Why Is SRH Reorg RFD Biased: Moderation Policy Comparision
It is not surprising that this RFD phase will cause a lot of discussion.
However, it would be nice if the discussion were to focus on the RFD
itself, and be free from personal attacks, etc.
When I saw the title of Ajay Shah's article, I had to wonder what
it would be about. After all, Ajay saw the RFD proposal well before
most people did, and he never raised the issues about moderation
policy before.
Shrisha Rao did a nice job addressing the points about why SRH and
SRV's moderation policies need to be different - one, after all,
is moderated by a software program whose source code can be obtained
in full through a simple request to the program itself! The other
group is run by a human, and so there are definitely more "gray"
areas which can be addressed.
I don't wish to address those issues again, since Shrisha already
answered those points. However, I do wish to address the question
of civility and trust in this discussion. I don't want to see this
RFD dragged down to name-calling, and given that Ajay has asked
elsewhere that we deal in an environment of trust and honesty, I
hope that language like the following will be absent from future
responses:
In article <4b5kbe$9kk@babbage.ece.uc.edu>, editor@rbhatnagar.csm.uc.edu (digest editor) writes:
|> When we pointed out personal vendetta and petty politics, the proponents
|> of the SRH (Soc.Religion.Hindu) Reorg. RFD pointed out that their goals
|> are not these, but only the betterment of the newsgroup SRH. They
[...]
|> This is one clear indication that the proposed reorganization move is
|> a sinister political attempt to control the newsgroup, unfortunately.
[...]
|> This just goes to show that the proponents of the reorganization are
|> not really interested in the improvement of the charter/moderation
|> policy, because if they truly felt this, then they would have implemented
|> it in SRV first!
[...]
|> My contention remains, that the move to reorganize Soc.religion.hindu
|> is entirely politically motivated. Those who fought hard to keep the word
|> Hindu out of the Vaishnava newsgroup now seek to control the Hindu newsgroup
|> and if they were indeed interested in more Hindu newsgroups, they would have
|> suggested more groups along the lines of Soc.religion.Vaishnava, such as
[...]
|> I hope that the readers of this newsgroup will see through this petty
|> political move.
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