Good Bye

[bob jenkins]

Originally Posted by mick

Rich,
I don't think I have had more that 10 reported posts all year, and only a few have been related to poster abuses with the rest related to spam or porn.

I delete what I see, when I see it (and, yes, sometimes I make mistakes -- deleting what shouldn't be; missing posts that should be). This means that a poster might see an "attack" and think, "that Jenkins lets anything go against me" only because I haven't been around to delete the post. Or, a poster might respond in kind, and I'm here "right away" to delete it, and the poster thinks, "that Jenkins has it in for me -- deleting even the most mild of my retorts." What posters (in general) don't see is all the posts I delete before they see them (huh?).

That said, over the past couple of weeks, I have been purposefully *not* deleting any but the most egregious posts (spam and purely vitriolic attacks). Call it an experiment to see what happens, or a response to some feedback that I was "over moderating", or a chance to see if certain posters would "self moderate." Whatever, it pretty clearly failed.

I deleted many posts from several threads (including some that hadn't been active for a day or so) this morning. I'll try to keep up. But, I ask that you *not* respond in kind to any attacks ("don't feed the trolls"). It makes the moderating more difficult and more time consuming.

Stay on-topic. Talk about umpiring (rules, mechanics, game management, equipment). Feel free to propose new ideas -- but recognize that an idea is not "good" or "bad" merely because it's new. Respond once or twice per thread per "session" -- do not feel the need to respond to every post in every thread. Treat new posters kindly -- at least until they prove they don't deserve it; then ignore them (and I don't necessarily mean to imply "use the ignore function.")

We've all known umpires with whom we "dreaad" working. The same applies here -- there are posters we "dread" reading. Don't be that poster.