The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #89934 Message #1701329
Posted By: Ebbie
23-Mar-06 - 05:46 PM
Thread Name: BS: Non posting of judgements week.
Subject: RE: BS: Non posting of judgements week.
Bert, I hate to sound like an apologist for a Big Brother type of operation - in this world we may get there soon enough - but I guess it comes down to trust. If a post of mine got 'zapped' and I objected, the first thing that would occur to me to do is to PM Joe and ask why. I would trust him to either defend the action or tell me that he would investigate a clone's action.
So far as I can tell, NOT ONE of the moderators and helpers is acting out of malice. They are human, so I wouldn't be surprised at all to find that on occasion one or more had acted out of frustration. But malice? No.
Let me give you an analogy:
A couple of years ago I was housesitting for a friend. One morning I was walking her dog on a trail close to Juneau's version of a "busy highway", our only four lane.
Idly I started counting vehicles in each segment of stop lights. The average - in two lanes - was 14 vehicles. (And we complain about our traffic!)
Then I had an epiphany. I suddenly recognized not only our common humanity but realized that I knew many of those drivers personally. They were not my enemy.. Each one of those drivers and each of those passenger had the same hopes I had, the same frustrations, the same desire to be happy, the same inevitable end.
I haven't felt the same about strangers since.