Posted by Lou Pilder on June 22, 2007, at 8:13:17
In reply to Re: Suggestion to reduce administrative burdens, posted by Dr. Bob on June 22, 2007, at 0:36:13
> > My suggestion is oriented more to those administration board posts that are resource killers for, perhaps, less than important reasons. I won't describe any particular threads that fall into this category, but I think most of them are self-evident. Perhaps I'm being too critical, but it seems that many posts seeking "clarification" or guidance regarding site rules are thinly-veiled attempts to engage in debate for the sake of debate, or to simply force the administrators to admit that the rules do not operate flawlessly in every circumstance. I don't think those situations offer much that is productive or constructive.
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> Thanks for your interest in reducing administrative burdens. And for not describing any particular threads. Your support has really been appreciated.
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> But while I'd like us to be able to discuss issues like the above, I'd also like those discussions to be civil. As on Politics (and this is, after all, our own politics), I think it's more civil to lobby for what you're in favor of than to lobby against what you're opposed to.
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> As an example, one way to rephrase the above might be:
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> > My suggestion is oriented more to those administration board posts that seek clarification or guidance regarding site rules. Perhaps before we post them we could ask ourselves whether doing so is likely to be productive and constructive for the community as a whole?
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> Thanks,
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> BobDR. Hsiung,
YOu wrote,[...perhaps before we post them,(posts that seek clarification or guidance regarding site rules) we could ask ourselves whether doing so is likely to be productive and constructive for >the community as a whole<...]
I am unsutre as to what your statement {constructive for |the community as a whole|) could mean. Could you give more clarification as to what you could want that to mean in regards to members here posting requests to clarify and seek guidance regarding site rules by clarifying ,let's say, how one request for clarification or guidance concerning site rules could be good for the community as a whole and another request for clarification or guidance could not be good for the community as a whole?
If you could, then I could have a better understanding of what you could mean as to what is or is not a request for clarification concerning site rules that is good for the community as a whole, or not, and either post a request that could be considered to be good for the community as a whole or to not post what could not be good for the community as a whole.
Lou Pilder
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