Man, True.
Mary Wehmeier's observations on civility and forums. I agree. If you can't maintain a civil group shut it down. You owe it to the rest of community. With decentralization comes responsibility. Few people seem to have the ethics, maturity, and civility to maintain a discussion group. If you don't, shut your group down.
If you do want to run a discussion group, remember this: If a poster is out of line, bar them from posting, let them say it on their own weblog, against their name. Don't let people post under fake names just to be able to attack a person without consequence. If they do that, delete their post. It isn't part of the public record. If they cared strongly enough about their statement they would post it along with their name.
Also, if people come out left field, engage them. Make them qualify their statements. Don't let them go on and on with wild unsupported statements. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
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