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Phos_four_dots
Inspiring
August 17, 2009
Question

Jochem van Dieten must be relieved of his Hosting duties

  • August 17, 2009
  • 7 replies
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I'm not saying anything about his skills as a coder, because they appear to be fairly prodigious. That's not the issue. But I feel very strongly that his social reasoning as it pertains to hosting duties does not fit the nature of these forums.


Please don't sling mud, because that would give him a reason to lock or otherwise make this thread inaccessible. As it stands, this thread stands as a gathering of opinion; for him to shut it down simply for that would be evidence of tyrannical behavior—exactly the sort of thing we wish to not see here.

Simply reply here with a "Yes" or a "I Agree."

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    Jhabrix
    Known Participant
    September 3, 2009

    What's wrong with this guy?

    http://forums.adobe.com/message/2220022#2220022

    Some poor person had a problem and posted in the wrong thread. The moderator in question shifted the post and changed a new topic. The OP very politely apologised for the wrong post and asked to be guided.

    The poor person literally got his /her head chewed off!!

    These forums are really frightening!

    A
    Anonymous
    September 3, 2009

    Stubborn refusal to see the error inherent in his methodology is leading to more and more confusion.


    What was wrong with the old way of dealing with it?

    J
    JayJhabrix
    Inspiring
    August 30, 2009

    Agreed. With knobs on. This is no way to moderate. He's locking threads and deleting posts like there's no tomorrow.

    Moderate? Immoderate is more like it

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    Anonymous
    August 18, 2009

    I agree

    And PJ, removal of the portion of a post that is offensive (or whatever) is definitely a better form of moderation and I agree it should be used more.  With a deleted post someone may forget they even wrote it, and without a visible [removed due to X reason] they'll never learn what they did wrong, so they'll keep on posting the same way...

    Just might get a little tiresome for the mods, IMO.

    J
    JayJhabrix
    Inspiring
    August 18, 2009

    Phos±four dots wrote:

    I'm not saying anything about his skills as a coder, because they appear to be fairly prodigious. That's not the issue. But I feel very strongly that his social reasoning as it pertains to hosting duties does not fit the nature of these forums.


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    Simply reply here with a "Yes" or a "I Agree."

    I agree...

    J
    Jochem van Dieten
    Inspiring
    August 17, 2009

    Phos±four dots wrote:

    I'm not saying anything about his skills as a coder, because they appear to be fairly prodigious. That's not the issue. But I feel very strongly that his social reasoning as it pertains to hosting duties does not fit the nature of these forums.

    An interesting choice of words, 'social reasoning'. Is that what it is called nowadays when you post profanity, I remove it, and you repost it again, and again, and again? Is that social reasoning?

    Fr__Watson
    Fr__Watson
    Participating Frequently
    August 17, 2009

    I agree.

    G
    Gyno-jiz
    Inspiring
    August 17, 2009

    I disagree. This forum is much more fun now. The sense of community is back. And built around the negative, as any community should be. We're united in keeping Jochem out!

    Curt Wrigley
    Curt Wrigley
    Inspiring
    August 17, 2009

    What you folks dont see are the PMs some of us hosts receive thanking us and specifically  Jochem for finally cleaning up the rude behavior around here.  The silent majority  generally finds the behavior of the some of the "regulars" to be rude and arrogant.   The feeling is; finally people are starting to not be afraid to post questions without a "regular" biting their head off and explaining to them "Thats not how we used to do it", or "dont ask questions unless its a really hard question".    .  Its time to embrace everyone, even people with [Shock] basic questions.

    No; I cant post examples of the PMs; cause all these folks want to remain anonymous so they are not attacked by the "regulars".

    You can choose to moan about the sw.  You can choose to moan about how it used to be.  Or you can use the system (like the vast majority of people) and be helpful.

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    Anonymous
    August 17, 2009

    Vapour. 

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