05-24-2011
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On another sailing website I had a problem with a moderator. Thankfully, I have not had a problem with this site as I have with one in reference but not mentioned in the exchange below. The italicized section is from the other site's moderator. Mine follows in regular type.
I have deleted your post to the "***************" thread. As *** reminded everyone, the thread topic is sailing or racing encounters with the late Senator Kennedy, and whether his passing will stimulate any interest in sailing. Your post ignored that reminder completely, and resorted to the passive-aggressive "biting my tongue to the point ripping through flesh!"
By not stating your hatred for Kennedy, you've done so in a way that any reader with at least a 70 IQ will understand that you loathed him. The inevitable reply from someone of the opposite political persuasion will then take the thread down the political, name-calling road.
We're not even going to let it start. Read the rules:
Here is my response:
Mr. ********,
I will reply to your email as you have offended me and such an offense requires a response.
No undue disrespect intended, but you show, sir, your bias. I'm sure you have heard, When we assume, we make an ass of you and me. In your email to me, you have shown that you lack the wisdom to simply say that you've taken down my post, and leave it at that. I would've expected a correspondence from ***** to be more, professional, more neutral with their members, and not so biased against a particular poster.
To correct your assumptions, I do not hate or loathe Teddy Kennedy, as you have twice accused me of doing - ignorantly and falsely, I might add. I didn't even know the man. I do have opinions as to his conduct to women, babies, and our great country, America, that are in opposition to him. But that does not mean that I hate him. Do you hate everyone with whom you disagree? I hope not. I suppose by your intellectually deficient logic, one could say that you hate me! Have you deleted everyones' post that was less than neutral, such as *******, ********, ********, or is it just me that you have targeted your vitriol towards?
I do not mind someone questioning a point I may make. I don't mind someone disagreeing with my opinions. I do mind someone in authority such as yourself accusing me of hating a person out of sheer partiality to the opposing political view without so much as asking me if indeed I do hate someone. I don't appreciate your accusation, your, in my opinion, tactless and vituperative jabs at my character, and I most certainly don't appreciate your assumption that you know what is in my mind when you don't even know me personally.
I will thank you in the future to please have someone a bit more fair minded, kind, and professionally responsible to correspond with me if there are any offenses that you think I may have committed.
Sincerely, Jace.
I realize that all of you here on this site don't have all the correspondence needed to make a fair assessment of the 'problem' I had with the moderator in question, but as you can see - I hope - simply being a moderator does not imbue one with a Solomonic wisdom and fairness. I think the real problem the moderator had with me was a difference of political views. Other posters had made more 'politically saturated' posts and and were even a bit insulting to me, yet they were not targeted. Their posts were left standing.
I do understand that the job of moderator is a tough one. I have been a moderator in a a live discussion colloquy before, and although difficult, I had to make the difficult and concerted effort to reign in my 'steeds of conviction' in order to avoid bias and untoward opprobrium to the participants and the subject at hand.
I hope, and do indeed, trust we will not have such a problem on this site. Thanks.
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