Re: Delphi Vogons

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Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:

>     Having, by now, become accustomed to A2-Delphi tactics, SiFan
>preserved a few copies. Here is the Delphi A2 forum manager's response:
>
>>
>>
>>What I fear is that the same sort of jerks that frequent other online
>>areas with lies and provocation will think that they can hang out here
>>and do the same. 
>>
>>That turns out not to be the case. Flames and flamers will not be
>>tolerated. 
>>
>>All the previous messages regarding privacy and Asimov have been
>>removed, not because the subject is forbidden, but because certain
>>people think they have a license to press thier views with extreme
>>rudeness. 
>>
>>We dislike rudeness even more than we dislike piracy. 
>>
>>Any further discussion of this issue will be deleted as soon as it is
>>seen by a staff member. 
>>
>>If you think that is rude of ME, well, you're right. Too bad.

Not having seen the entire thread, I cannot comment.  I think the
response from the moderator is not too harsh, except for the last
sentence and the word "jerks" and "lies" in the first line.  I feel
that if the purpose of the removal of a thread was to limit flames,
the response from the moderator should not be in itself a flame.
Perhaps Delphi moderators can in the future be less rude. When
I used Prodigy for a short time many, many years ago, I too got
a response from a moderator, but it carried nothing of rude.  It
was just a simple statement that something was inappropriate,
would be removed, etc.  Most moderators behave in similar ways.
Removing an off-topic or unacceptable thread is NOT rude.  Why
not be polite in the moderation (in the above example, that's
easily changed by modifying JUST the first sentence and getting
rid of the last sentence).

This is just my opinion.  PLEASE, no attacks from pro or anti
Delpi people, ok?