Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 14, 2004 03:11 AM
I wrote the top post. I'm in agreement, for the most part, actually in just about all his work, I like it as well. And imho, he's done more than a decent job. His contributions go a long way in advancing Linux and Free/Open Source Software.
But there is a fundamental problem that is being brought to the forefront here on Newsforge over the last two days.
Joe Barr has the nuke button. He can nuke posts. And one post, along with the replies, appears to have been nuked within the last 24 hours. Maybe more than one post. Taking a look at some of the inflammatory statements in some of the other posts here, why the post was nuked doesn't make sense from what I remember of it. Maybe I'm wrong.
Combining the power to nuke posts, moderate posts when general readers don't have moderation rights, and having the ability to post in the same story as he has moderated or nuked posts is a recipe for trouble. Perhaps Joe Barr is an editor (isn't he/you an editor/publisher of another site?), and therefore has irrevocable nuke/post/moderate rights, but it doesn't seem to be working.
Maybe the slashdot model, where if you moderate you can't post, if you nuke, you can't post may work here. Or if you post, once you nuke or moderate, your posts are removed.
btw, I think you are confusing Joe Barr with Roblimo. Roblimo has the byline for the story iirc, so Joe Barr wasn't the one in Saudi Arabia submitting the story. I actually made the same mistake of not checking who wrote the story when I posted one of the parent posts that received a lot of inflammatory comments both for and against. Had I known that Roblimo wrote the story, perhaps I would have moderated myself, in fear of being a marked user for later retaliatory moderation or nuking. Possible even though I'm AC. In any case, Roblimo received the benefit of my unmoderated post thanks to my lack of checking if he was the author.
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Re:Joe needs an editor
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 14, 2004 03:11 AMBut there is a fundamental problem that is being brought to the forefront here on Newsforge over the last two days.
Joe Barr has the nuke button. He can nuke posts. And one post, along with the replies, appears to have been nuked within the last 24 hours. Maybe more than one post. Taking a look at some of the inflammatory statements in some of the other posts here, why the post was nuked doesn't make sense from what I remember of it. Maybe I'm wrong.
Combining the power to nuke posts, moderate posts when general readers don't have moderation rights, and having the ability to post in the same story as he has moderated or nuked posts is a recipe for trouble. Perhaps Joe Barr is an editor (isn't he/you an editor/publisher of another site?), and therefore has irrevocable nuke/post/moderate rights, but it doesn't seem to be working.
Maybe the slashdot model, where if you moderate you can't post, if you nuke, you can't post may work here. Or if you post, once you nuke or moderate, your posts are removed.
btw, I think you are confusing Joe Barr with Roblimo. Roblimo has the byline for the story iirc, so Joe Barr wasn't the one in Saudi Arabia submitting the story. I actually made the same mistake of not checking who wrote the story when I posted one of the parent posts that received a lot of inflammatory comments both for and against. Had I known that Roblimo wrote the story, perhaps I would have moderated myself, in fear of being a marked user for later retaliatory moderation or nuking. Possible even though I'm AC. In any case, Roblimo received the benefit of my unmoderated post thanks to my lack of checking if he was the author.
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