From: Ron House <house@usq.edu.au>
Date: 1998/02/02
Message-ID: <34D55FB9.900CAA7@usq.edu.au>
Newsgroups: news.groups,alt.religion.bahai
Subject: Re "Bahai Leaders Vexed by on-line Critics"
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Donald Zhang Osborn wrote:
>
> Rick Schaut wrote:
> > Ron House wrote in message <<a
href="/profile.xp?author=34CD6CED.4ED50ED9@usq.edu.au&ST=PS">34CD6CED.4ED
50ED9@usq.edu.au</a>>...
> > >Rick Schaut wrote:
> > >> Ron House wrote in message <<a
href="/profile.xp?author=34C7078A.FAFE564@usq.edu.au&ST=PS">34C7078A.FAFE56
4@usq.edu.au</a>>...
> > >> >But what does the truth concern? This proposal?
> > >>
> > >> It concerns the possible effects that this newsgroup can have on
> > >> undeepened Baha'is. Is this, somehow, not worth consulting about?
> >
> > >Not to me it aint. As I said, I don't care what
> > >effect this NG has on Baha'is of any colour.I
> > >just want people to be able to follow
> > >Baha'u'llah's advice without interference by
> > >wiser-than-thou moderators.
> >
> > I could understand this attitude if both concerns were mutually
> > exclusive rather than simply competing concerns for which we should
> > strive to find a solution that satisfies both.
>
> A few quick (if not brief enough) observations, if I may:
>
> 1. I agree that on this point it is best not to be limited by "either-
> or" thinking.
I'm not.
> 2. I am disturbed by the negative characterizations about the s.r.b.
> moderators that one encounters in some messages in the t.r.b.
> discussion. IMHO it is important to remember that (a) the moderators
> are volunteers who render a service as best they can, and as such
> deserve some respect, even if they one may not always agree with their
> decisions -- in any event, I don't see how one could characterize them
> as "wiser-than-thou"; and (b) criticism of s.r.b. moderators seems to
> me to be one of the weakest arguments for t.r.b., yet one of the most
> controversial.
The mere fact that they ARE moderators is the essence
of the main problem. For those of us who want freedom
of speech, a moderator is not performing a service.
I characterise some of those moderators I have had
experience of as "wiser than thou" because that is
precisely my experience of their dealings. How else
would you characterise someone who rejected an article,
not for lacking relevance, not for being abusive,
but for LACKING A CONCLUSION?????
--
Ron House
house@usq.edu.au
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but
because people refuse to see it. -- James Michener, "Space"</pre>
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