> I personally would be willing to spend five-ten hours/week learning how
> to moderate and then doing it, provided I could try implementing the
> system I've suggested. There may be others here who would also be
> interested.
>
>Speaking for myself, if not for the other moderators, I must say that
>I find your attitude arrogant. "I'll help you, but only if I can step
>right in and change how you do things, because I think it's wrong."
I agree that that was an arrogant statement. I didn't mean to imply
that what I think you're doing is wrong - my position since I started
writing has been that the system is *inefficient*, which is a different
thing. All I meant to say was that I would be willing to put my time
where my electronic mouth is and help work to make the system more
efficient. Obviously I would have to learn the current system before
trying to implement the new approach I'm suggesting.
>You'd have a much better chance of being accepted as a new moderator,
>and even of gaining a new understanding of why the moderators do
>things as they do, if you asked to become a moderator and work within
>the current system for a while before preaching about changes to be
>made. To be blunt, you have very little idea what it's like until
>you've been part of it from the inside.
Apparently I didn't come across the way I meant to come across.
It's too late for me to not preach about changes to be made, but I know
how to be a team player; all I was really saying was that if I became
a moderator ("learning how to moderate and then doing it") I would
like to *subsequently* (i.e., after learning the current system) be given
a chance to try improving on it.
Which is mostly irrelevant because I have no experience with Perl and
am probably insufficiently anal to make a decent moderator anyway.
But I wanted to clarify what I said; I didn't mean to sound so
obnoxious.
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Robert F. Heeter, rfheeter@pppl.gov
Graduate Student, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
Conventional Fusion FAQ and Glossary Maintainer
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