11-30-2011, 08:24 PM
Quote:How do you suggest we ‘protect’ the professionals from the amateurs, with over-moderating the board or stifling discussion?I suppose that I fall into your category of "professionals", although we are really all amateurs with different levels of knowledge and different areas of interest. As a "professional", I don't feel that I require (or deserve) any special treatment. If I decide to pitch in on a particular topic, I must be prepared to accept replies from others. Like everyone, I expect a little courtesy; not because I'm a "professional", but because I'm a human being.
It has often been observed that nobody can possibly know everything, nor remember everything that he/she has read over the course of a ten-, fifteen-, (gasp) twenty-five-year involvement in the subject. Personally, I welcome the opportunity for others to "remind" me :wink: of things that I have forgotten, and inform me of things that I didn't know, and prompt me to think about things that I should've thought about before. Hopefully, everyone will proceed on the same basis.
In my opinion, there are already safeguards against (for example) ad hominem attacks; we probably don't need any more, although when a post silently "disappears" because someone has taken offence, or because someone is considering whether others might take offence (as happened recently, I believe), it would be nice to inform the poster.
My suggestion: I would dearly love the old "preview" button back again. Is it technically impossible to have that facility in the new system? Like many others, I like to read over anything I "publish" to check for silly errors. (I know I made one yesterday, but I can't be bothered to go back and correct it! :roll: )
