Conference 7.286::sports_91

    I'm more than a little tired of it.  In fact I'm very seriously
    thinking of resigning. 

    Gotta admit that the constant baiting of moderators and the ensuing
    predictions of how long the offending note will last is a more than a
    little childish.
    
    $.02
    
    Mark.

    What brought this round on?

As someone who has baited a few moderators, I think I can speak
for many in this file that we do appreciate the job you guys do,
and unfortunately, our electronic roughhousing sometimes turns
the corner.   I'll take this opportunity to symbolically buy
you moderators an ice cream cone - the universal symbol of 'patching
things up'.

Hip, Hip, Hooray!
Hip, Hip, Hooray!
Hip, Hip, Hooray!

For you are jolly good fellows,
Everybody join in:

For you are jolly good fellows - not one of us can deny!

Ever grateful.

JD

    
    Could have been be for asking JD if the F_____ M_________ beat him
    ito submission..  If it was, I'm sorry...  Ragging the F_____
    M_________ has always been a source of great pleasure for me and is
    always in total jest.  You guys are the best (Seriously)
    
    BG

    Hey FatherJD,
    
    That ice cream cone just blew 'saw's diet!  He looks like the
    Hindyburgh again!
    
    Look out - he might 'splode!
    
    I remain,
    hopin faddah JD supplied Nice 'n Light instead!
    Kev
    

    I suggest that JD take over for me as moderator.  He's obviously better
    qualified to handle it.

Nah.

I mean, he's nice and all, but could you imagine JD chastising some
noter who crossed the line?

Nah, me neither....8^)

'Saw

    Whadja do now, Kev??????
    
    
    JaKe
    

    I've been doing some soul searching lately and would like to publicly
    apologize to Mac.  I personally know how difficult it is to moderate a
    conference (I currently mod 6 of them, only 1 non-work related).  The 
    mods in here put up with a lot and do a fine job.
    
    The recent thread in 170 seems a little harsh and unnecessary.  I'd
    suggest people cool it.  You may or may not know that Corporate 
    Security (network police) monitors the notes conferences.  In this day
    where people have nothing better to do than to play Big Brother and
    contribute to the downsizing effort, it's too risky to post what's been
    posted.  I can name a few conferences where Big Brother has had some
    people fired and/or put on warning within the last week.  This will
    only get worse until the company is well enough off and we're all too 
    busy to be patroling the net.
    
    Mike

    I'm with 'ya on this one Mile H. I also mod a bunch of conferences;
    the Big Brother scenario, as well as the potential for ill
    feelings should make everyone pause and think for a moment before
    conitnuing any hostile action.
    
    yoseff
    

    I'm with Mike and Yoseff... Sometimes our emotions get the better of us
    when we write.... I would never be a mod because I don't have the hard
    skin to take all the crap. People tend to forget the these notesfile
    are DIGITAL property and subject to the First amendment and the mods are
    the ones that personal will jump all over when someone complains. I
    thought Mac/Mods stepped in at the right time when they saw where 
    the note was heading.

    Lets trying working with the Mods instead of trying to see what we can
    get away with before the Net Police come crashing down on us....

    REK

       I'd like to suggest that a couple of those notes in 170.* be deleted
    by the author before the mods have to do it and start thinking about
    shutting us down!
                                         Denny

    I agree with -.1.
    
    I've been a pretty big offender at times, and sometimes entered notes
    at night, only to go back, re-read them and delete them before anybody
    else got to see them, cause what I thought was appropriate when I
    entered it, I realized WASN'T when I went back and re-read it.  I have
    the utmost respect fer the mods these days, and feel some of the
    comments made elsewhere in this notesfile about the mods to be totally
    out of line.
    
    JaKe
    

Thanks guys.


I just want to point out that as Moderators, we are STRIVING for consistency
all the time, but we are human, and subject to the same moods, ups, downs,
and getting baloney from management just like all of you.  So, we are not
always perfect.

We ARE open to comment, complaint, and questions.  A simple VAXmail,
written in an calm, non-hostile adult manner will ALWAYS receive the mods
attention.

We do allow a lot of leeway in this conference, and sometimes this is
viewed as inconsistency.  It is not meant that way.   I look at it
(in rugby terms of course) as the same as when a ref lets a team
"play the advantage".  If you ALWAYS step in at the first sign of a 
problem, you disrupt the flow, and it might straighten itself out 
anyway.


It was a good point about the network police.  Lest anyone think that's
baloney -- BELIEVE ME, it's the TRUTH.


Here's hoping that things get back to smooth sailing,
'SAw

    
    From thisted moment in time, I hearby degree that henceforth the
    following thing, "*tFM" be forever defined in the following manner!
    
    " * the FANTASTIC MODERATOR"
    
    examples - MtFM = Mac the FANTASTIC MODERATOR
    	       StFM = 'Saw the FANTASTIC MODERATOR
    
    Any questions?
    
    As it is said, it shall be done!
    
    I remain,
    Chairman of the Rules and Ways Committee!
    Kev
    

    
    >>From thisted moment in time, I hearby degree that henceforth the
                                            ^^^^^^
    Is that a 98.6, or should it be "decree"????
    
    >>" * the FANTASTIC MODERATOR"
    
    >>examples - MtFM = Mac the FANTASTIC MODERATOR
    >>	       StFM = 'Saw the FANTASTIC MODERATOR
    
    Kev, sucking up don't stop the "set hidden" key from being used when
    necessary!!  (Many (8^)*'s)
    
    
    >>I remain,
    >>Chairman of the Rules and Ways Committee!
    >>Kev                       ^^^^
    
    I see how you may appoint yerself chairman of the rules, but isn't 'Saw
    more appropriate fer the "Ways" comittee????
    
    JaKe
    

    
    'Sawmain = * Whiz committee
    
    ;^)
    
    

    Re: Net Police & Baloney
    
    Just to carry 'Saw's comment a little further...
    
    I used to question this stuff too until last week when I had a personal
    encounter with Corp. Security and Corp. Personnel.  Corp. Security saw
    a memo in the non-work-related conference I mod making light of recent
    layoffs.  They in turn had Corp. Personnel review it and both filed a
    complaint against the author.  The details are still up in the air, but
    the point is that they're out there.
    
    Like I said, this will happen until we're too busy to consider Big
    Brother operations a priority.  We've lost enough people out of here, we 
    don't need to lose anymore.
    
    Mike

    Kev, stop sucking up.

    
    Naw, I ain't suckin up!
    
    Yabbut ya know though, with this snow coming down, I thought of
    summertime at the beach.  Then I looked at the title of this note and
    ya know what I immediately thought of?
    
    Read the title, then hit the return key
    
    
    
    I see lint in a lot of belly buttons!
    
    
    grins!
    
    Kev