Posted by: bhakunde bhut April 2, 2010
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San,
I genuinely appreciate your participation. I reiterate, I do understand your situation and the fact that you have limited resources. Even if you had unlimited resources, I believe such cases of moral dilemma would always be a tricky situation. I, as a reader and you, as and admin, have different perspectives. While my decision is inconsequential in the broader realm of the community, yours is substantial, albeit it's a minor alteration. Among the readers too, the opinions come from all 360° angles. It's really hard to find a consensus.As a result, there are always chances of perennial discontent from one user or another. I am not surprised when there is always a person who dissents when you take an action. I believe, those dissents from users are genuine and in no way personal.
The problem with all the discussion forums is the right balance between freedom of speech and the acceptability of the content through out the spectrum of users. The compromise entails the sacrifice of either one of them, or both. The sticky situation arises when a user knowingly or unknowingly breaches the informal contract. The solution is therefore the best fix of aforementioned two criteria among others. As the saying goes, 'what's goes for goose is not always good for gander.' Honestly, I do not know the solution of the problems. What I do know is that I won't amputate my arm if I have a problem with it and I am not sure how to act with it. I have witnessed your best intentions when you created the upvoting/downvoting mechanism. Unfortunately, people gamed the system and abused it.
Once again, I thank you for putting up such a beautiful community. Ignore my criticism if I am not helping. I am just using my right of freedom of speech, maybe wrongly.
I genuinely appreciate your participation. I reiterate, I do understand your situation and the fact that you have limited resources. Even if you had unlimited resources, I believe such cases of moral dilemma would always be a tricky situation. I, as a reader and you, as and admin, have different perspectives. While my decision is inconsequential in the broader realm of the community, yours is substantial, albeit it's a minor alteration. Among the readers too, the opinions come from all 360° angles. It's really hard to find a consensus.As a result, there are always chances of perennial discontent from one user or another. I am not surprised when there is always a person who dissents when you take an action. I believe, those dissents from users are genuine and in no way personal.
The problem with all the discussion forums is the right balance between freedom of speech and the acceptability of the content through out the spectrum of users. The compromise entails the sacrifice of either one of them, or both. The sticky situation arises when a user knowingly or unknowingly breaches the informal contract. The solution is therefore the best fix of aforementioned two criteria among others. As the saying goes, 'what's goes for goose is not always good for gander.' Honestly, I do not know the solution of the problems. What I do know is that I won't amputate my arm if I have a problem with it and I am not sure how to act with it. I have witnessed your best intentions when you created the upvoting/downvoting mechanism. Unfortunately, people gamed the system and abused it.
Once again, I thank you for putting up such a beautiful community. Ignore my criticism if I am not helping. I am just using my right of freedom of speech, maybe wrongly.