A new class of members called "Forum Monitor" has been introduced. These members will have free rein to Delete Posts, Suspend Members and Archive Blogs. The defining characteristics of these members is:
1. They are a subset of the Admin group.
2. They are NOT active bloggers, and so not emotionally involved.
3. They are NOT well-known Admins who can easily be defamed/insulted by name in IRI or in other sites.
4. They have never been involved in any well-known incidents/controversies in the past - favourable or otherwise. Their "political views", "inclinations" are unknown.
5. When any of these Forum Monitors start acquiring a reputation...
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or a distinctive blogging personality, they will be relieved of their responsibility, to protect them from being targeted by members.
6. Forum Monitors have a "*^" against their name.
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Some effects of this scheme:
1. When any member finds his/her post deleted or finds that they are suspended, regular ** Admins have NOT performed this action. So you may NO LONGER accuse them of unfair action or spin conspiracy theories against our Admins.
2. Disruptive Members will continue to get their posts deleted or get suspended. You may no longer say,
"Admin A disagrees with me, and so routinely deletes my posts".
Answer:
"Admin A did NOT delete your post because he CANNOT delete your posts. Your posts were deleted for a VALID reason by some Forum Monitor who is not even an active well-known blogger. So there is no question of disagreement.
3. You may NO LONGER accuse Admins of blogging with impunity and immunity, whereas "poor members" are being mistreated. If your posts are being deleted and Admins' posts are not being deleted, it is NOT because Admins enjoy immunity. It is because YOU are stirring trouble in the forum.
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The above scheme is designed to:
1. Protect our regular Admins from being unfairly attacked by others.
2. Protect members from Admins who may indeed have some natural human biases that creep in over a course of time.
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If you find any of your posts deleted, you will have to accept it as such, or it may indeed be a genuine mistake. But one thing is for sure. Your post was NOT wilfully and deliberately deleted by some well-known Admin, to satisfy some hidden agenda. Any member who creates disruption, wilfully mentions Admins by name and makes crude comments about them, will see themselves suspended/banned.
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It was yet another SHORT but SWEET TRAIN JOURNEY as 6 admins headed from the garden city of Bangalore to the heritage city of Mysore to participate in the ADMIN MEET there. Pramodh picked me up from my daughter's residence at 5,15 am and after we reached BNC at 5.40 am, we were soon joined by Tejas and Shashank. We purchased 6 tickets for ourselves and 2 other admins, who were to join us later, during the journey. While Krishna Kumar Kottavalasa joined us at SBC, Suresh Sirvi boarded the train at Kengeri.
Just then we got a call from admin Vishwanath who had come to BNC on his 2-wheeler to see us off . Vishwanath, who was to be a part of the team, proceeding to Mysore, dropped out at the last minute, much to our great dismay, due to...
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urgent work commitments. And yet this did not deter him from coming all the way from his residence in RTO Nagar to BNC, In order to give us a send-off at that unearthly hour.
Imagine our ASTONISHMENT when Vishwanath handed over a BREAKFAST packet to us for our train journey. Vegetable biriyani, Gulabjamuns, packets of CURD, and packets of fruit juice for at least 10, although we were only 6 of us, going to Mysore. Ultimately, we shared the rest of the food with our admins from Mysore. The food was excellent and we thoroughly relished the items. Midway, through our journey, I rang up Vishwanath, and conveyed the message that while, the FARE he had provided for our benefit, had been MOST WELCOME, his presence during the journey and at the MEET would have been a greater source of JOY to all of us. But sadly that was not to be.
LET ME ON BEHALF OF ALL THE 9 ADMINS AT THE MEET EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE TO VISHWANATH FOR HIS GREAT GESTURE ON THIS OCCASION,
PS. I shall request the other passengers to update the details and visuals of the train journey.