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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Cancer / December 2007? need for moderation.
http://groups.google.com/groups/create?lnk=gcf My suggestion is that we set up a "moderated group". Have a moderated account that will be shared amoungst all the regular posters, so in theory we can have free flowing discussions and not one person to make the decision what is a good post or not. Keep the rules simple, NO Selling. No crazy off topic posts. Allow free speech but no name calling. What are the regulars thoughts. It would require one person to know the other people's valid email address so they can send a verification. > http://groups.google.com/groups/create?lnk=gcf > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > It would require one person to know the other people's valid email > address so they can send a verification. Moderated groups are VERY hard to run. I'm a part of alt.support.anxiety-panic.moderated, and I know the moderators have to work around the clock to read posts, check out posters, etc.  Signature·.·´¨ ¨)) -:¦:- ¸.·´ .·´¨¨)) Laurie ((¸¸.·´ ..·´ -:¦:- ((¸¸ ·.· *~*LiveLoveLaugh*~* All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ~Abraham Lincoln On Dec 16, 10:15 am, "~*LiveLoveLaugh*~" <nob...@myjunkaddy.com> wrote: > >http://groups.google.com/groups/create?lnk=gcf > [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Thanks for the information,,,,,,,that is a great point, Do they have more than one moderator? Alex On Dec 16, 10:15 am, "~*LiveLoveLaugh*~" <nob...@myjunkaddy.com> wrote: > "Alex" <usenetg...@gmail.com> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Thanks for the information,,,,,,,that is a great point, Do they have more than one moderator? Alex Yes. And they have a lot of problems. Messages are always missing, among other pain in the fanny stuff! Signature·.·´¨ ¨)) -:¦:- ¸.·´ .·´¨¨)) Laurie ((¸¸.·´ ..·´ -:¦:- ((¸¸ ·.· *~*LiveLoveLaugh*~* All that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ~Abraham Lincoln >On Dec 16, 10:15 am, "~*LiveLoveLaugh*~" <nob...@myjunkaddy.com> >wrote: [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] >more than one moderator? >Alex >Yes. And they have a lot of problems. Messages are always missing, among >other pain in the fanny stuff! Hi ya! Didn't know you were in here! <waving> Last time I was here, it was defending you against a jerk named boB. Hell, that is the LEAST of the moderated group's problems! You forgot to mention that some moderators have control issues, too. And then there is also 'certain people' that control the moderators as well...and always get what they want! Or should I say a certain, lying, manipulating, female person? It is rather like corrupt government. Like the time one of the moderators dissed one of the group members...and accidentally posted it in the newsgroup instead of between the moderators. That was classy. I used to be part of that group too, until they pulled a horrendous stunt that I still can't believe! I had to hire an attorney. Now...you couldn't PAY ME to post in a moderated group. My suggestion is to use your killfile, and DON'T lose your freedom to a bunch of newsgroup nazis :-) Good Luck! Gigglz >>On Dec 16, 10:15 am, "~*LiveLoveLaugh*~" <nob...@myjunkaddy.com> >>wrote: [quoted text clipped - 76 lines] > > Gigglz I agree. In my experience, most moderators, however well-motivated originally, become total control freaks. > >>On Dec 16, 10:15 am, "~*LiveLoveLaugh*~" <nob...@myjunkaddy.com> > >>wrote: [quoted text clipped - 85 lines] > > - Show quoted text - I guess I did not understand the problems of moderation, I had thought every regular poster would have rights to delete the posts that are not cancer related. I don't want any one person to have super rights over another. I agree with all.....cancer takes enough control over one's life, sorry I brought this up. The message is clear all can post......and no rules apply, Alex Alex wrote : "I guess I did not understand the problems of moderation" Hi Alex, Please forgive me :), but that is such a great quote taken "out of context" ! That could be a sub-title for my auto-biography ... or my epitaph ... For the title, I've settled on a portmanteau : a blend of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" : "The Idiocy" :) Merry, Merry, best, Uncle Sally (old hippie 'come to earth' unwillingly for unknown reasons in his late twenties) "Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned." Mark Twain >> >>On Dec 16, 10:15 am, "~*LiveLoveLaugh*~" <nob...@myjunkaddy.com> >> >>wrote: [quoted text clipped - 85 lines] >> >> - Show quoted text - >I guess I did not understand the problems of moderation, I had thought >every regular poster would have rights to delete the posts that are >not cancer related. I don't want any one person to have super rights >over another. It's too bad it can't be that way. You would end up more upset if you moderated the group than anything else. The internet can be full of rude jerks :-( The anxiety group moderators have a "God-complex". I had an attorney go thru everything I was accused of, and he couldn't believe it. He found them to be really "sick". >I agree with all.....cancer takes enough control over one's life, >sorry I brought this up. Oh sweetie, don't ever be "sorry" for wanting your group to be safe and helpful to your people. Times in my past, I tried to help others get a moderated group myself. Now I run far, far away! >The message is clear all can post......and no rules apply, Alex Cancer is terrible :-( I lost my dad to it in 1990 and it was an awful death. I'll never forget it. Over the past two years, my mother, mother-in-law, and two close friends all went through breast cancer. My heart goes deeply out to everyone in this group. Love and prayers, Gigglz >>>On Dec 16, 10:15 am, "~*LiveLoveLaugh*~" <nob...@myjunkaddy.com> >>>wrote: [quoted text clipped - 76 lines] >> >> Gigglz >I agree. In my experience, most moderators, however well-motivated >originally, become total control freaks. You are so right. I wouldn't have believed it, until it happened to me. I had heard things from other people, but then I found out on my own. People who I thought were dear friends, slapped me in the face. One woman spends more time following posters around to see what they are doing in other newsgroups than she does caring for her own family! She obsessively reads the newsgroup she left, and sends emails to others about it. She saves links from Google on bad things people have done to her from LONG ago...and if a group member befriends anyone that was involved waaaaay back then...she sends all the information to the person as a 'warning', so they won't befriend them. "control freak" doesn't even begin to cover it! Gigglz Yep--there are plenty of sickos around of the mental variety. But why would you bother getting an attorney?? Nobody knows who you are on these groups (well...I hope...you didn't....) Mel >>>>On Dec 16, 10:15 am, "~*LiveLoveLaugh*~" <nob...@myjunkaddy.com> >>>>wrote: [quoted text clipped - 98 lines] > > Gigglz Yes, they did know me...or so I THOUGHT. Had they TRULY known me, they would have believed ME when I stood up for myself! That's where the attorney came in. I had so-called close friends that were MODERATORS. I had to beg them to let a friend in who they held a grudge against from many years ago! Now they make her 'grovel' to post in there. They don't let her posts go thru automatically like everyone else's; they read each one! Come to think of it, the 'obsessed' woman will probably read this, and maybe let my friend's posts go thru automatically now! I notice she responds to my friend in that group now when she posts in there, although she can't stand my friend. LOL, sick! People from the group still email me...the ones who knew better, the ones who are my REAL FRIENDS. I love them. I think one is a moderator; but I'm sure if they find out she talks to me, they'll banish her for it. Many ex-group members have had problems, too...and they have shared their problems with me...along with the 'controlling' emails...and the emails where the "queen" bashes me and tries to take them with. What a shame! I cannot believe someone I thought was SO GOOD, is totally opposite. It was very hurtful, to say the least. It took me a long time to heal, and it still hurts. I should say, SHAME ON ME! I should have know better, by the way she talked about others. <slapping self on head> Live and learn...and stay away from moderated groups. Thanks for your thoughts, Gigglz p.s. watch out...you are being followed! LOL p.s.s. if you'd like to talk more, please email me. I don't want to disrupt this group any further with moderator trash :-) :-) >Yep--there are plenty of sickos around of the mental variety. > [quoted text clipped - 106 lines] >> >> Gigglz >On Dec 16, 10:15 am, "~*LiveLoveLaugh*~" <nob...@myjunkaddy.com> >wrote: [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >> >> > What are the regulars thoughts. There already exists a far better set of groups for specific types of cancer found on the e-mail listserv of http://ACOR.ORG. If you wish to communicate with patients, survivors and caregivers for a specific cancer, that's the place to try. There are also lists on ACOR concerning end of life issues, advocacy, family issues and a host of other topics. |
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