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[Nowhere Man]

Regarding self-policing,

The times I reported a thread, I believe, all pre-date NC and Gopher.

To me, self-policing means pointing out something to the mods and letting them decide what should be done.

From what I recall, the thread(s) were removed rapidly. Few people even saw them.

As such, i don't see how self-policing is anythng close to mob rule.

And I've already pointed out ways in which "polite language" can still be condescending, humiliating, and/or just as crass as simpler language via innuendo.

In other words, would we make the forum more higher brow by mandating sarcasm and other forms of clever wordplay/repartee?

While it might be more flowery, I doubt it would be even slightly different than what it is right now.

And, as long as we are as far along in this discussion as we are, I'd like to point out one further thing:

The off-topic forum isn't exactly what I'd call civil. The CE forum always seems to get singled out as the place where people are rude/not nice. However, as several people have pointed out, CE is where highly contentious thngs are discussed. But, most CE participants have a thick skin in this regard.

On the other hand, its sometimes surprising to hear the answers you get if you just want to express your favorite Pop-tart flavor in OT.

I believe this is red dog's point as I don't really know his name from CE. I believe he's talking about things that happened in OT (correct me if I'm wrong).

In this regard, I think most CE posters accept te forum as it is. Perhaps it's not friendly, but there are multiple other forums to go "hang out" on.

At the same time, CE has a large contingent of posters who continue to post even after they no longer reside in Korea. Can that be said for these other forums?

Ultimately, I think you can ask people to try not to get so worked up about things, but I don't see any fundamental changes that will actually improve the forum without bias towards one poster or another.

I say this as someone who first posted on Dave's in 1996, back when it was fully unmoderated. What a Wild West Show that was. It needed moderation, but only to the extent which we have.

I'm content with the status-quo.

[red dog]

Hi Nowhere Man,

Actually my concerns pertain to all the forums at Dave's, not one in particular. I haven't followed the political discussions on CE all that closely, but I have noticed inappropriate posts here -- for a while there were a lot of anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish comments, for example. Most of the attacks on me took place in the general discussion forum and in OT, but occasionally people attack me here too. (The most recent example has disappeared, though.) Also, I haven't complained only about attacks on me ... I've had numerous other concerns about insensitivity and inappropriateness at Dave's, even when I'm not the target.

[On the other hand]

[Nambucaveman]

[On the other hand]

Nambu wrote:

[red dog]

[Nambucaveman]