Posted by muffled on March 28, 2008, at 16:22:00
In reply to Re: pulling posts » fayeroe, posted by Dinah on March 28, 2008, at 11:52:46
> I like the idea in theory.
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> And in fact practice it as much as I can. If something flares up between two posters, I try to wait a bit to see if they can reconcile it between them.
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> Or if I think a situation is best handled by other posters diffusing it, or reaching out, I tend to wait on that as well. Although it makes it difficult for me to diffuse or reach out myself, since admin action might be necessary at some point.
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> What actually happens, in my experience, is that while it works sometimes, other times I wish I had acted sooner because it catches fire and other posters respond uncivilly to the provocation and then are angry when admin actions come to them as well.
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> And frankly, while I understand the reasons why uncivil responses to provocation are against the rules, I don't like better than anyone else for someone to get in trouble for responding to provocation.*I wonder if something like this post could be included in the FAQ cuz it does explain well where the deps are comming from....
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