Seems Yahoo! By policy guidelines of moderation is not the only internet provider Ratcheting up troll-controls:
Huffingtonpost: "I predict the same will happen here and anywhere else where troll-controls are ratcheting up. Instead of killing business, it will bring back those who've stayed away, unwilling to put up with online ugliness; in fact, several people I've heard from have made that exact point." "this action by HuffPost, as well as the moderation policies on Facebook and other sites, are good efforts towards raising the bar. Tweaks will surely be needed, but it's a start. Most meaningful online discourse does not require anonymity to be rich, candid and inspiring, but it does require a willingness to develop smart, respectful, effective communication skills. That used to be a societal norm; it ought to be again. I hope, like the cigarette ban, we get to the point where we can't even remember what it was like when trollers ran the show, just as it seems strange to remember when the table next to us could smoke-out our dinner without consideration." It is timely, -Buck http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lorraine-devon-wilke/welcome-to-the-cult-o\ f-an_b_3813766.html <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lorraine-devon-wilke/welcome-to-the-cult-\ of-an_b_3813766.html> > > > Yup, the ad hominem is right up the with pornography on Yahoo groups. Yahoo is being ahead of the curve on this on the internet. Yahoo really is being quite good and spiritual with its new guidelines for groups. FFL should come into alignment. > > > > > Friends, But the larger problem we have now is with the new Yahoo guidelines and our under-moderated ad hominem homid members threatening the life=blood of the whole group. > > > > > > > > People obviously have way too many posts to fire and burn here. > > > > > > > > Recent case in point, quote: "I thought it was mean spirited, actually. Same old invectives hurled at someone: > > > > " Are you dumb, or dull, or nuts?"" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > "Yahoo! Groups give Yahoo! users a place to meet, interact, and share ideas with each other. .. Yahoo! sets out the terms and conditions of your use .. some of the key things to remember are: > > > > > > 1. You may not harass, abuse, threaten, or advocate violence" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yep, personal by its nature the use the ad hominem is abuse on all these levels. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Friends; > > > > > > > But we got a larger problem in want of a better decorum for FFL: Yes, by the virtue of the new Yahoo-groups guidelines being placed over us we should directly outlaw the ad hominem and name-calling forms of argument as lower than the lowest and directly banish those who use them here as the fundamental and great threat to our whole way of life here on a Yahoo-group that they are. > > > > > > > Kindly, > > > > > > > -Buck > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yep these people have taken toll the life spark of FairfieldLife here on Yahoo-groups with the Ad hominems. Time comes now to do with serious moderation or surely let the list die entirely. Seems a time has come for action one way or the other. Radical action. Resuscitation or it dies. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wleed3 wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I am leaving if the postings are not reduced much is vitriol > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yep, the name-calling and the ad hominem certainly are the low forms of argument here and should certainly be outlawed in civil society and on all Yahoo groups as reprehensible abuse. Yes, by stark contrast certainly the best writing and exchange on FFL was in a time when the post count was limited to 35 per week. This list cries out for a limit to abuse and a strong hand of moderation. A strict speed limit of 35 posts per week. > > > > > > > > > -Buck > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > In a message dated 08/23/13 16:55:50 Eastern Daylight Time, dhamiltony2k5@ writes: > > > > > > > > > > Dear Rick, the post-count experiment as a noble hope is clearly failing. The lowest form of writing and argument evidently dominates FFL with their diluting flood of the post-count of FFL. As an elder of the FFL community here I implore you Rick, please save our FFL from the lowest form of argument on FFL, the Ad hominem . These people's abuse of the list and community here with the Ad hominem is too much. Something radical, something different needs to be done to save FFL as a spiritual and free place. > > > > > > > > > > Sincerely, > > > > > > > > > > -Buck > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > > > > > > > > > > fairfieldlife-subscr...@yahoogroups.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Or go to: > > > > > > > > > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > > > > > > > > > > and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
