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Re: Towards a peaceful compromise
Ken Stuart (kstuart@snowcrest.net) wrote:
: On 16 Jan 1996 02:33:09 GMT, vijia@pop.jaring.my (Singam) wrote in
: soc.religion.hindu:
: >> iii> - clear definitions of moderation guidelines;
: >
: >This is a good topic to discuss. If the question of moderator
: >replacement is put on hold, I am sure Ajayji will participate
: >sincerely in a discussion on moderation guidelines.
: Well, the status quo is definitely unacceptable to me.
: If we allow the following post which was just posted (not by Singam):
: >I am interested in any information about Sai Baba which exposes him as a fraud.
: then what exactly is it that the moderator is doing? Not any more
: than an auto-moderation bot, it seems to me!
: (The post didn't ask what people's opinions are - it started out with
: the assumption that he is a fraud.)
: Note that I am NOT a follower of Sai Baba, just someone who respects
: his work, such as building schools and hospitals in India that are
: available free of charge, etc.
: ( Not to mention that the poster is so ignorant of Hinduism, that
: they're obviously not aware that there are 2 Sai Babas, Satya Sai Baba
: and Sai Baba of Shirdi, both of whom have many followers, irregardless
: of the mahasamadhi of the latter. )
In a sense, I agree with Ken here.
But then, it is also a responsibility of
our readers (of s.r.h) that we know what we are writing. The moderators
can only exert there influence up to a limit. Beyond that limit, it
is all up to us.
: >>I.2 Will this destroy soc.religion.hindu?
: >
: >>In short, no. It will replace soc.religion.hindu with three groups:
: >>unmoderated group talk.religion.hindu
: >
: >I have been in some unmoderated groups before and shudder at the
: >thought of such a group bearing the label 'Hindu'. Emotions run too
: >raw on the net. Shall we not leave unmoderated groups to non-Hindu
: >topics?
: Well, I think that the immediate response to my version of moderation
: will be something about freedom of speech, etc. If there is an
: unmoderated talk.religion.hindu, then all the dissidents and
: hate-mongers will have a forum [ not that they don't already use
: soc.culture.indian :-) ], so they won't have any reason to complain
: when their posts are rejected by the moderator of SRH.
I am not averse to the proposed talk group. However, the reason
that such a group will exist, DOES NOT imply that any articles
rejected on the aforementioned ground, will not generate criticism.
But nevertheless, we could have a talk group.
--
Nachiketa Tiwari
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