Allowing Buck to moderate is a bad idea. He dishes out the same Kool-Aid.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GfG0ofh8-MM/VXQ-eaKldPI/AAAAAAAAA_A/SKumQYyjUYs/s910/Kool_Aid_1956.jpg https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GfG0ofh8-MM/VXQ-eaKldPI/AAAAAAAAA_A/SKumQYyjUYs/s910/Kool_Aid_1956.jpg --- <jamesalan735@...> wrote : Doug Hamilton has volunteered to moderate and to limit his moderation to ensuring adherence to Yahoo’s guidelines and no more. He will not moderate with his puritanical Buck alter-ego. Click on the link below to see a sample of how Doug Hamilton has commonly used FFL over the years. This is from a few weeks ago. Posts such as this are interspersed with incessant whining about how FFL is inappropriately run. In the hiring business, a common phrase is "Hire for attitude, train for skill". Well, I doubt if there will be any training for skill in this moderator position. Based on my observations of his approach to FFL, I don't see that Doug has either the attitude or the capacity to 'moderate' himself or FFL. However, the deed is done, and I guess only time will tell. Fairfield Life https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/414168 https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/414168 Fairfield Life https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/414168 Fairfield Life focuses on topics of interest to seekers (and finders) of truth and liberation everywhere. Fairfield, Iowa is home to Maharishi University of Mana... View on groups.yahoo.com https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/FairfieldLife/conversations/messages/414168 Preview by Yahoo --- <rick@... mailto:rick@...> wrote --- <dhamiltony2k5@... mailto:dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : We sat over this together in church the other day. It will be fine. –JaiGuruYou It was a wedding. Ordinarily you wouldn’t find me in church. Almost daily, various people urge me to moderate FFL or get someone to do it. With BatGap and my other responsibilities, I don’t have the time. I believe in very minimal moderation, at least for FFL. I think the “anything goes” nature of it has contributed to its success and longevity. But I think we are obligated to at least abide by Yahoo’s guidelines. Theoretically, frequent violation of those guidelines could get the group shut down. Doug Hamilton has volunteered to moderate and to limit his moderation to ensuring adherence to Yahoo’s guidelines and no more. He will not moderate with his puritanical Buck alter-ego. I know some will bristle at what they perceive as a restriction of their freedom of speech, but different types of speech are appropriate in different contexts, and again, in the context of a Yahoo group, we are obligated to abide by Yahoo’s guidelines. So I’m going to try this and see how it goes. If Doug abuses his authority and/or fails to moderate fairly and objectively, I will revoke his moderator status. --- <turquoiseb@... mailto:turquoiseb@...> wrote : Sad news. Might I propose, before Doug starts banning people, that you and Rick insist on a few guidelines for *him* when he does this. I'm suggesting this because I think everyone here is aware that Doug is...uh...not quite in touch with reality these days, and tends to see things that aren't really there. So what I suggest is that if he is indeed given the power to ban someone, he cannot do so without reposting *the exact post* that Doug feels is in violation of the Yahoo Guidelines, and without explaining to the group *exactly why* he thinks this poster needs to be banned. Otherwise, you know what's going to happen. Doug will just ban the people he doesn't like, without telling *anyone*, and they'll just fall off the radar because they can't post any more, either to complain or to defend themselves. I think we all know that a tyrant has just been handed the keys to the kingdom. I think we also all know what he will do with them. I'm just suggesting a procedure that insures he can't do it in secret. From: "j_alexander_stanley@... [FairfieldLife] mailto:j_alexander_stanley@...%20[FairfieldLife]"; <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Moderating The Peep Show As is typically the case these days, I am completely out of the loop with respect to Rick's handling of FFL. Doug's posts this morning piqued my curiosity, and it turns out that Rick made Doug a moderator yesterday afternoon. I have no idea what Doug is supposed to do in terms of enforcement. As for me, my role will not change. --- <dhamiltony2k5@... mailto:dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : Thanks R-V, I appreciate the perspective of your enlightened high-minded empathy in experience for the well-being of FFL.
