Posted by Lou Pilder on December 2, 2004, at 17:54:38
In reply to Re: Lou's response to Dinah-~endrs-frckidio, posted by pegasus on December 2, 2004, at 13:33:08
pegasus,
You wrote,[...lost about the fundamental concern...].
The fundamental concern involves the following :
Posts that are potentially unacceptable but have no mention of that by the moderator after a request for a determination of acceptability or not has been posted or emailed to Dr.Hsiung. If this procedure is implemented, then it could mean that if no symbol is placed by the questioned post, that it is endorsed and acceptable for the forum. I feel that without such a procedure, one could think that a post is acceptable when it is not.
The example given is one of a group of posts belonging to this class of posts. I am proposing to Dr. Hsiung that he put a symbol by those posts that have the potential to be unacceptable to indicate that the forum does not endorse the post. This is not the same as saying that the post is unacceptable, although it could be.
I base this on several practices for newspapers. Some newspapers do not want to print advertisments for particular products, or for telephone numbers to hear sexual fantacies or "dateing services" and such. But they have to allow all to advertise so they allow these type of adds and post that the newspaper does not endorse what is being advertised. Also with radio and tv programs that the station does not endorse.
The statement by Dr. Hsiung that he is only responsible for what he writes IMO does not adresss this situation because he has a code for posting and I believe that the code leads people to believe that if there is no action by the moderator to say that something is not acceptable, then the potential to think , like Dinah has written, that the post is acceptable is there. If the radio station did not express that they did not endorse the opinions of the parties in the program, then one could think that the station did endorse what was on the air.
Lou
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