Re: Re: NO KING
By: Ron L. to Gregory Deyss on Tue Jun 17 2025 07:23:52

Gregory Deyss wrote to Pablo Gener <=-

Conservative, liberal, centrist it makes no difference, as long as it's respectful, reasoned, and within bounds.

And there's the reason Pablo doesn't like moderation.
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I never said I don't like moderation. It's jsut that the way I see the meaning of "moderator" should be someone encouraging others to speak up, even if they want to lie, ridicule, mislead, undermine, all sorts of seweage-level use of discourse, and also encourage others to rebate, proof, demonstrate, enlight, clear up, etc etc, you get the idea. The idea behind "a moderator" is not someone who they themselves (I know, I'm teasing you...), "firmly" stamp in their own views, but that encourage, ensure and enforce others' ability to do so.
They don't need to lie, to hide away or to stand back and not participate, but the main point of a moderator is not to say what they want, they already could do that be them moderators or someone else.
There's power in words. You say: I *AM* MODERATOR... and think this particular way... that may *discourage* (key word here, in this line of thought...) others from speaking up.
One might get the idea that this is the *slaaaaightly* slant to the right Echo.... you can say what you want, but it'd be a neat detail to always make sure that whoever disagrees with you is encouraged to speak up too, and not go around calling the opposition or the previous government deranged lounatics that want to tear the White House down and such..
Just saying...
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