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Originally Posted by Dean Plejaren
I'm defending peoples freedom to have one.
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Dean, why do you feel that you need to "speak for" / "defend" people here or "there"? DO you think this forum is full of shy people who cannot speak for themselves. Have you considered that many are quite happy just to lurk and get all the good stuff that is here, or just contribute in peace.
What is it that YOU really want? If it is total freedom to engage in any forum behaviour including that which contravene's the forum guideliness then great - I get that, maybe YOU don't agree with all of the guidelines, but it is Avalon with Avalon's guidelines and not Dean's forum with Dean's guidelines.
Avalon values positive contribution, factual contribution, healthy debate and opinions, above that it values that all this is done in a respectful and as harmless a manner as possible. The moderators are there to assisst this process.
Avalon encourages that decency, and I feel pretty confident that most of the membership encourages/hopes for it to, since that is what makes it strong.
Further, I presume that the majority who do operate within the guidelines dont really understand why the few who dont, do what they do. Or if they do, (sometimes it is obvious) they dont speak up because they dont want to further fan the fires - they would preffer to stick with Avalons mission. They dont want endless threads of bonecrushing debate, or to be personally attacked for thier views, or see forum bashing and negativity - all of which is, more often than not, off-topic.
In any case those that fail to meet these quite normal standards of human decency should expect to either be encouraged to change or, if necessary stop contributing (by thier choice or Avalon's depending on the situation).
You have said elsewhere that you are going to start your own unmoderated forum? Were is it? You can say that here as a reply to this message and I promise that we won't bust you for advertising. Either way, I wish you well in your experiment.
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