Korgscrew
Group: Super Admins
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Posted: Dec. 27 2015, 18:23 |
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Without being Mike, it's hard to say exactly what Mike objected to there, but like Toby said, it was a touchy subject at the time. I'd like to hope that Mike would understand the issues a bit better now - I seem to remember him making a comment in an interview which suggested his position might have softened - but perhaps he's not let go of his old position...or perhaps it's something else.
Either way, I'd definitely agree with Mat when he says that "maybe lots of people are running groups on Facebook now who aren't used to the niceties of online communities." Running online communities - any communities really - can be really challenging! We've learned a whole load of things over the years of running this place - sometimes by getting things right first time, but often by not getting things quite right, or even quite wrong, and having to adapt. Sometimes you can pick up the pieces from an incident, maybe at others, you end up sweeping them under the carpet and moving on, but I think if you never ask what you might have done wrong yourself as an admin in a particular situation, the chances are that you're just going to get the same problem cropping up again and again...and often the result is both sides getting frustrated.
Of course it's their right to run the group however they see fit, as long as it's within Facebook's rules, but it does seem like in a lot of these cases, it wouldn't have hurt to ask people nicely not to do something (and preferably explain why) before reaching for the ban button. They may, for all I know, face all kinds of pressures which make that impractical, but it does seem like there are a fair few people out there who'd appreciate some clarity on matters like this one...
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Yes precisely !!!!