Posted by Deputy Dinah on January 25, 2009, at 16:07:32
In reply to Re: Please be civil » Deputy Dinah, posted by SlugSlimersSoSlided on January 25, 2009, at 14:52:01
My main point was this:
Please do not ask others to post their opinions as to what any given poster meant by what they said. This would be encouraging other posters to jump to conclusions, which would be against site guidelines.
My reading of the civility guidelines is that posters should not ask other posters to guess at the meaning of what yet another poster meant by what they posted, since this would involve jumping to conclusions. At least in my experience.
It doesn't matter what posters are involved. This is the point I'd like to make.
Since there seems to be a substantial opinion that this should be ok under site guidelines, I'll send my post on to Dr. Bob with a request to review it for correctness. Should he say that it is fine for posters to ask the board at large to opine on the posts of other posters, then that will be the applicable precedent and it will apply to all posters.
It is his board, and he has oversight over all deputy decisions.
Until he rules differently, please do not the board at large to post opinions on what a poster means by their post.
Dinah, acting as deputy to Dr. Bob
poster:Deputy Dinah
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URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20081228/msgs/876128.html