Posted by Alexus on September 5, 2006, at 10:46:01
In reply to Re: Extraction » Alexus, posted by Dinah on September 5, 2006, at 9:10:05
> I don't want to argue...
okay. i don't want to argue either :-(
thank you for a wonderful talk in chat
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thank you guys so much.> I must say that if I were a nondeputy poster and saw continued references to discussing things with deputies, it would be hard for me to see deputies as primarily posters just like me. I would feel a bit like there was an inner circle.
yeah. i've felt like that a little. like bob cares more about what deputies have to say. he probably thinks... that he does. 'cause they have earned the privaledge or something. but then i realised that it seems to be fairly much lip service. after his saying 'i've discussed it with the deputies and no', (and i get a couple emails where they seem to think yes) 'i've discussed it with the deputies and no', (and i'm still wondering whether the majority of deputies are agreeing with bob or not), then 'i've discussed it with the deputies and yes' (and i'm wondering whether he 'discussed' it or whether he 'informed' them of his decision and whether that happened before or after he posted 'yes' to the boards).
> ...I tried to get Bob to bring a discussion back to Admin in a thread you might remember with zazenduck.
yeah i remember that. i admired you for doing that. i understand your stance on small boards a bit better now. been reading the archives too...
> It's true that things deputies posted as posters have always been brought up by those who are responding to us as deputies.
yeah. but then that can happen to others too. but i understand it happens to deputies more.
bob doesn't babble. he posts as a moderator. i agree that he is asking one hell of a lot for deputies who babble to post a little / a lot more as moderators. i mean... if it were possible for them to do that you would think it would be possible for him to babble...
> ...as new posters come, they don't realize the history of the deputy role and see us as "moderators" rather than deputies, a distinctly different role.
sometimes i think it is a verbal distinction. i remember calling you a moderator once even though i knew what your role was and i knew it was different from bob's i still thought that was the appropriate name. but yeah, i hear what you are saying. like when auntiemel removed that post to jyl and dr bob restored it. the deputy / moderator distinction...
> And perhaps you could be sympathetic to gg's point if you remember that Dr. Bob is, in practice, about as communicative with his deputies as he is with anyone else.
i'm sure.
i think... there must be a middle way.
between the boards having more autonomy without bob having to withdraw.
but i guess...
it is possible that the motivation for the former is mostly about their being motivation for the latter.
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