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jp2
response 79 of 235: Mark Unseen   Feb 12 13:47 UTC 2004

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rational
response 80 of 235: Mark Unseen   Feb 12 13:54 UTC 2004

slip.
gull
response 81 of 235: Mark Unseen   Feb 12 14:26 UTC 2004

I'm getting really tired of jp2 and cyklone insisting they should be
able to dictate Grex policy to the rest of us.
jp2
response 82 of 235: Mark Unseen   Feb 12 14:28 UTC 2004

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naftee
response 83 of 235: Mark Unseen   Feb 12 15:09 UTC 2004

re 81 And what makes you think your ideas of GreX policy our 'better'?  In
fact, they're worse!  You've already gotten rid of two upstanding users.
cyklone
response 84 of 235: Mark Unseen   Feb 12 17:44 UTC 2004

Re #81: And I'm getting really tired of having my words misstated by people
like you and jep.
tod
response 85 of 235: Mark Unseen   Feb 12 18:41 UTC 2004

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iggy
response 86 of 235: Mark Unseen   Feb 12 19:28 UTC 2004

I still don't understand the US vs THEM point that gull professes in
nearly every response.  It would be easier to understand his point
if he clarified what he means.
gull
response 87 of 235: Mark Unseen   Feb 12 19:34 UTC 2004

Re resp:85: If you don't like the way Grex is run, why do you have an
account here?  It seems to me like you're only here to make trouble. 
Just like jp2, who is such a poor loser he's copy-and-pasted responses
to a large number of items in agora about how he's afraid his posts will
get scribbled.

I'm sick of the conference crapfloods, pointless policy debates, staff
abuse, and endless backbiting and carping that a certain group of
M-Netters come here to cause.  I tolerated it for a while, and I even
supported some of jp2's arguments when I thought he was genuinely
interested in improving things.  But it's gradually become obvious to me
that, like naftee, he's just interested in making trouble.  His methods
are just more cleverly disguised.

I can only assume this is just some kind of sick game for you people.
jp2
response 88 of 235: Mark Unseen   Feb 12 19:46 UTC 2004

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tod
response 89 of 235: Mark Unseen   Feb 12 19:54 UTC 2004

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gull
response 90 of 235: Mark Unseen   Feb 12 20:26 UTC 2004

Yeah, and I remember when we were having "meaningful policy debates"
with M-Netters about whether or not it was legal to photocopy driver's
licenses.

The free speech arguments would be meaningful if they weren't so
obviously just another example of a pattern that involves, for example,
arguments about whether it's a "violation of free speech" for some of
naftee's accounts to be locked for trying to fill up agora with large
text files.
albaugh
response 91 of 235: Mark Unseen   Feb 12 20:38 UTC 2004

jp2, you are just so tiresome now.  Read this carefully:  valerie did
something most peole didn't like.  But it was done.  staff have no history
of restoring stuff due to vandalism, so it was not their duty to "hop to it"
and restore the killed items.  A vote by the membership to compell that
failed.  valerie's unauthorized act does not set a precedent that other staff
will use to justify similar rogue acts, even if the items are not restored.

Further, all this does not establish a grex policy of censorship.

I know it it is useless to say it, but I will anyway:  Give it up, move on.
kip
response 92 of 235: Mark Unseen   Feb 12 21:01 UTC 2004

Joe, re: 49, in 47 I was wondering about 46.  :)

It has become painfully obvious to me that nothing will change Jamie's mind
in regard to the supposed precedent that Valerie's actions have caused.

I don't read the two votes here as stating that items can now be deleted on
request anymore than I would imagine all Grex users hated the color red if
a vote was passed saying apples and strawberries were not everyone's favorite
fruits.

So I'll just try to respectfully agree to disagree with Jamie's interpretation
of the events of the past month.
jp2
response 93 of 235: Mark Unseen   Feb 12 21:04 UTC 2004

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kip
response 94 of 235: Mark Unseen   Feb 12 21:21 UTC 2004

Fair enough, an excellent point.  Please allow me to rephrase in this way:

I don't see the precedent of Valerie's actions precipitating a new implied
policy of deleting entire items at the author's request.

My dictionary suggested this for precedent:

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Precedent \Prec"e*dent\, n.
     1. Something done or said that may serve as an example to
        authorize a subsequent act of the same kind; an
        authoritative example.
        [1913 Webster]

I don't view her actions as a valid precedent.  I understand and respect
that you do view them as valid precedent.
jp2
response 95 of 235: Mark Unseen   Feb 12 21:31 UTC 2004

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kip
response 96 of 235: Mark Unseen   Feb 12 21:46 UTC 2004

I don't think the threat is meaningless.  I feel rather certain that if I
decided to unilaterally delete entire items that I would be dismissed from
staff rather quickly and that the items would be restored.  

My opinion is that the vote said we're not going to retroactively restore this
first time, but staff had better not go around doing this anymore.
jp2
response 97 of 235: Mark Unseen   Feb 12 21:53 UTC 2004

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tod
response 98 of 235: Mark Unseen   Feb 12 21:57 UTC 2004

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kip
response 99 of 235: Mark Unseen   Feb 12 22:00 UTC 2004

Sorry, I've often been accused of not being logical.  I'm just informing you
of what my opinion on the matter is.

Remember, Grex isn't a game of Nomic and it certainly isn't Constitutional
Law. :)
tod
response 100 of 235: Mark Unseen   Feb 12 22:11 UTC 2004

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kip
response 101 of 235: Mark Unseen   Feb 12 22:12 UTC 2004

tod slipped.  The votes said 37 members decided that the items in question
were not to be restored.  I don't see anywhere in the votes where it said the
staff has no problem with censorship.  I will not make the same leap you did
to that conclusion.
tod
response 102 of 235: Mark Unseen   Feb 12 22:19 UTC 2004

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kip
response 103 of 235: Mark Unseen   Feb 12 22:23 UTC 2004

as only one member of the staff and a junior one at that, I didn't act because
Valerie's actions were unprecedented and I hadn't a clue about the proper way
to deal with them.

Perhaps Grex will have to raise the bar for staff members to those having law
degrees and Supreme Court clerking experience to understand all the
ramifications of censorship and free speech.

I didn't know what to do and I looked to the membership and the discussions
taking place.
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