Posted by Dinah on July 20, 2008, at 18:02:44
In reply to Re: Is Babble Dying? yup » Dinah, posted by fayeroe on July 20, 2008, at 16:27:43
I didn't mean to suggest that anyone had said that deputies were vicious. I was just seeing where the two possibilities could be separated and where they were entwined. My statement that they were inseparable would of course be incorrect, if it was the particular deputies that were being objected to.
It was, in part, an exercise in logic.
We really aren't moderators of any particular board, though. We're not in charge of anything. We just are Dr. Bob's hands.
Dr. Bob's chosen dictionary didn't load for me for some reason, but Encarta defines deputy as follows.
1. somebody's representative: somebody fully authorized or appointed to act on behalf of somebody else
It's gotten associated with law enforcement because of the prevalence of sheriff's deputies. But I think that the above pretty much defines our role. It's a very limited role, even now. Thank heavens.
"Moderators" might be appropriate for the PC role. I think deputy is the most appropriate name here.
I don't know that it matters in the grand scheme of things. But it matters to me to delineate where my power and responsibility ends.
As far as flying under radar...
I've long wished Dr. Bob would invent the "Please Cease and Desist". A more general warning for specific behavior that may not be conducive to civic harmony, but that is too rare or too elusive to put down in a rule. I'd actually like that better than the plethora of rules. If deputies weren't considered trustworthy to hand them out, it could be reserved for Dr. Bob alone. The general rule could be that requests by Administration should be followed.
Dr. Bob prefers more specific rules, and I understand his reasoning.
I wish Dr. Bob were around more, though.
In the end, isn't it better to have deputies constrained by the rules than deputies not constrained by the rules? Maybe it's even better to have a site owner who feels constrained by his own rules?
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