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Holbytla
Post subject: Re: The one week ban on sf and CG
Posted: Wed 26 Nov , 2008 11:18 pm
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A question. Hal do you consider yourself as a source or a symptom?

My opinion is that you exacerbate the situation and it amounts to tossing gas on a fire.
We dealt with SF and the posts he made. Then we had to deal with the spreading fire exacerbated by you. You make matters worse and you essentially fight against yourself and anyone that is trying to deal with the situation.

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Posted: Wed 26 Nov , 2008 11:20 pm
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Hal - do you understand the total breadth of ad hominem that you claim empowers you and your views of this situation?

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Posted: Wed 26 Nov , 2008 11:24 pm
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I am not a source.

I suppose you could call me a symptom, as I don't just shut up and go away when I'm harrassed and attacked. I try and get something done about it.

You, and others have labeled these as "disruptions." I would argue that pointing out a problem is not a disruption, but refusing to do anything about it and arguing about how you were right to do nothing, when there IS a problem, is what the disruption is.

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Posted: Wed 26 Nov , 2008 11:24 pm
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I think that my post about the overall point of CG's posts, and my question to rebecca are more interesting than quibbling with hal. I wish I could get some thoughts about it all.

I find the governing side of this board to be intriguing. I said something to that effect back at the m77t that directly preceded the HoF split, and despite all of the bickering, I still think that.

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Posted: Wed 26 Nov , 2008 11:26 pm
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Yeah. That worked so well last time. Way to go.

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Posted: Wed 26 Nov , 2008 11:46 pm
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TheEllipticalDisillusion wrote:
I think that my post about the overall point of CG's posts, and my question to rebecca are more interesting than quibbling with hal. I wish I could get some thoughts about it all.

I find the governing side of this board to be intriguing. I said something to that effect back at the m77t that directly preceded the HoF split, and despite all of the bickering, I still think that.
This thread is moving pretty fast, you could repost it here or somewhere else. To be honest I have no idea what you asked me. :P

(But I'll go find out now!)

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Posted: Wed 26 Nov , 2008 11:55 pm
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I think TED's referring to this one Rebecca.

The question is the second half I think. I find the first half to be very interesting.
TheEllipticalDisillusion wrote:
Not that I want to get involved here, but there is the point that CG is making that the charter doesn't handle: if the rangers act unanimously, but one pushes the button, how would a member call a hearing against all of the rangers when two of them have to agree. If the rangers stand united on a decision, either people may not be willing to push buttons so as to avoid blame, or the membership would be at a disadvantage--democratically speaking. An independent review is supposed to be done by two rangers and a juror. If the issue is with the rangers as a whole, who may be standing united, what would a member do? I suppose we will all find out. Actually, I think this is kind of an interesting issue.

Distraction over.

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Well, you're one of the only posters who thinks the Rangers broke the rules.
Does there have to be a majority of posters who think the rangers broke the rules?

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Rebecca
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Posted: Wed 26 Nov , 2008 11:58 pm
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Guess it looks like I missed the edit, sorry TED.


I know Holby posted a bunch of the Charter information about calling a hearing. Afraid I need to get going soon so sorry I can't answer it better.

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Posted: Thu 27 Nov , 2008 12:00 am
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Rebecca--I asked because my questions can't be answered by the charter. I wasn't asking for some formal opinions, just opinions from members because the charter specifically doesn't deal with the issue that CG has.

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Posted: Thu 27 Nov , 2008 12:01 am
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Technically of course the answer to TED's question is that two Rangers must agree that another Ranger broke the rules.

But somehow I don't think that's exactly the question he was asking.


Edit - I see I was correct.

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Holbytla
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Posted: Thu 27 Nov , 2008 12:01 am
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I know of no reason why charges cannot be brought against all of us. If needed, temp rangers can climb aboard.

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Rebecca
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Posted: Thu 27 Nov , 2008 12:02 am
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Oh right, I was in a hurry and misread it.

Not that I have a well-formulated thought about it at the moment. :blackeye: I'll try to remember to get back to you on it later.

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Posted: Thu 27 Nov , 2008 12:05 am
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Is the committee still being formed about the extraordinary powers issue that was mentioned in the beginning of this thread?

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Holbytla
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Posted: Thu 27 Nov , 2008 12:07 am
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As far as I know the committee is not yet full. We still have not resolved the issue with the mayor.

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Cenedril_Gildinaur
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Posted: Thu 27 Nov , 2008 12:09 am
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In my opinion, only Eru is qualified for the position at this time.

I must be on the committee. It is nice that you started forming it without me. Since this committe is being created to atack me I need to be on it to defend myself from it.

Under no circumstances should this rule change be made retroactive. None. "The rangers" should not be given the escape of retroactively approving their activities.

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Posted: Thu 27 Nov , 2008 12:11 am
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I said most of what I had to say on this topic back in 2005. IOW, the closer the Rangers come to authoritative decisionmaking that averts dramatic meltdowns ("dramapocalypses," as a friend of mine says), the better. Hearings, committees, meta-hearings, temporary rangers ... unnecessary, a waste of holiday goodwill and cheer that should be accumulating this time of year, a waste of talented people's time ... and likely to equal, yet again, a loss of fun on this board.

Here, two members have a persistent (years-long) history of conflict with each other. They're asked to stop engaging with each other directly (many times, nicely, by Rangers and by posters). They don't, the situation reaches a boiling point and all the Rangers agree with the decision to impose a week-long ban on both of them. There is no renegate Ranger here who exceeded his/her authority in a way that even two other Rangers agree is inappropriate (in fact, not even two other MEMBERS have come come forward to complain that the Rangers acted inappropriately ... heck, not even both of the suspended posters agree on that point, seemingly.) None of the Rangers responsible for the decision will be around for more than a couple more months in that role. The disciplined members can actually volunteer to serve as Rangers in the future and be responsible for making the same sort of judgment calls. "Abuse of power" sounds like hyperbole when applied to a small messageboard in the first place -- more so given the previous two sentences.

Even if the Rangers are unreasonable, tyrannical, megalomaniacal, arrogant, absurd, unfair, egotistical maniacs who must be stopped ;) ... at the end of the day, all that happened is they decided that two people (who had access to multiple other boards where they could talk to each other and everyone else, FWIW) didn't get to post here for a week. Perspective check.


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Holbytla
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Posted: Thu 27 Nov , 2008 12:32 am
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Cenedril_Gildinaur wrote:
In my opinion, only Eru is qualified for the position at this time.

I must be on the committee. It is nice that you started forming it without me. Since this committe is being created to atack me I need to be on it to defend myself from it.

Under no circumstances should this rule change be made retroactive. None. "The rangers" should not be given the escape of retroactively approving their activities.

You second paragraph is so out of touch with what is going on, that I find it hard to believe I can help you understand. Seriously I suggest you reread the charter.

The committee has nothing to do with you directly. Nothing whatsoever. Period.
The only interest you have in it is as a member of this board.

The committee has to meet because rangers felt that an extraordinary use of powers was warranted. This is a safeguard not an attack. There is nothing to defend. This is nothing more than an opportunity for the board to amend the charter based on a circumstance that was not accounted for during the drafting of the charter.

That is it, nothing more. This is an effort to help the board run more smoothly as it was impossible to allow for every possible happening down the road.

As for the Mayor's position, that is still to be decided. Since the rangers have performed the mayor's duties for the last two years, it is a reasonable position to state that the mayor be subbed for with a ranger. But that has not been decided.

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Posted: Thu 27 Nov , 2008 12:56 am
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What tp said.

This board isn't, has never been, and will never be anything more than a group of people hanging out for the hell of it. To treat it as anything else, to treat as some formal entity of some sort, is an absurdity. All the formality crap, I am fairly certain, causes FAR more problems than it has ever solved.

You do something to annoy people over and over for a long period of time. You're asked to stop doing it and you don't. People kick you out.

That is exactly what would happen in RL and therefore exactly what should happen here. This board should not be "ruled" by any damn formal whatever, it should be ruled by the common sense behavior of people trying to spend some time together. Because this place is nothing more. So if you tick a lot of people off for a while, they might tell you to leave. And hopefully any reasonable adult will leave instead of doing the petulant, immature thing of annoying people even more.

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Posted: Thu 27 Nov , 2008 12:56 am
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My question would be better answered in its own thread. In a discussion of policy concerning the board. I can take it there because I think it may need to be answered, but I'd rather it not get muddied by the specifics of an issue.

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Cenedril_Gildinaur
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Posted: Thu 27 Nov , 2008 5:15 am
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Please do start that separate thread. Your question is too important to lost in this thread..

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