RE: From the moderator: My decision about Joe Dees

From: Virginia Bowen (vbowen@bowenconsulting.net)
Date: Mon 22 Dec 2003 - 17:13:40 GMT

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    I think this is a brilliant solution. Thank you for handling this in a manner befitting the term "moderator".

    Virginia Murrieta, CA
     
    "My treasures do not clink together nor glitter. They gleam in the sun and bray in the night."

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk
    > [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Bruce Edmonds
    > Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 5:11 AM
    > To: Memetics Discussion List
    > Cc: joedees@bellsouth.net
    > Subject: From the moderator: My decision about Joe Dees
    >
    >
    > OK, I have consulted. Basically the result was that although
    > Joe Dees
    > (and others but he is the principle problem) put some people off the
    > list by irrelevant and copious posts, a few wanted to read
    > what he writes.
    >
    > I have had a (rather frustrating) correspondance with Joe.
    > He indicates
    > that he thinks campaigning against certain "memes" (as he puts it) is
    > overridingly important, and does not understand why such a
    > campaign may
    > be inappropriate on *this* list. Thus I have come to the
    > view that he
    > is unlikely to change in the long term. He is certain that
    > he is right!
    >
    > On the other hand, I am deeply antagonistic to censorship/moderation.
    >
    > Thus what I will do is the following: I will create a
    > sub-list of such
    > "offenders", the result of which will be that although their
    > posts will
    > continue to be archived on the web, they will not be distributed in
    > emails. This way people who want to read him can by looking up his
    > posts, but they will not fill up people's mailboxes. (Ideally there
    > would be software so that *each* participant of the list
    > could decided
    > whether to exclude any particular person's posts, so that all could
    > 'select out' as they wanted, but I do not know of such
    > software). This
    > 'layer' of filtering will be in place sometime early in the new year.
    >
    > I think this is the minimum intervention whilst solving this
    > problem - I
    > do not like people who are genuinely interested in memetics
    > being driven
    > away by a few who do not adhere to the academic norms of the list.
    >
    > (PS. It will continue to be the case that personally offensive or
    > abusive posters will simply be excluded, as well as any
    > illegal stuff -
    > i.e. obscene or libellous).
    >
    > Regards.
    >
    > --------------------------------------------------
    > Bruce Edmonds,
    > Centre for Policy Modelling,
    > Manchester Metropolitan University, Aytoun Bldg.,
    > Aytoun St., Manchester, M1 3GH. UK.
    > Tel: +44 161 247 6479 Fax: +44 161 247 6802
    > Email: bruce@cfpm.org Web: bruce.edmonds.name
    >
    >
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