scottfab
12-27-2013, 10:17 AM
It’s time to bow out.
I’ve been a member of the ZR-1 community for 17yrs through the various name changes of the club dating back to “Larry”.
I’d like to think in those 17 yrs I’ve had an overall positive impact on the preservation of the ZR-1 buy helping others through issues with the car. I’ve attended 4 gatherings in Bowling Green and met many notables ZR-1 figures.
I was going to just silently fade away but at the urging of others I’ve decided to explain why I will not be renewing my membership.
It comes down to this.
What is the role of a “moderator”?
To my way of thinking it’s to moderate. The #1 definition is:
“make or become less extreme, intense, rigorous, or violent.”
Back a few months on a thread in the forum I was attacked and humiliated by a moderator for something that happened on a completely different online forum. Not only was this outrageously WRONG for a moderator to do but in substance wrong also. (the mentioned topic resolution on that forum went in my favor). At that time I raised the issue to the president. I was told by the president that I had been “condescending” in the past to him consequently nothing happened to correct the current issue. No “moderating” of the moderator involved happened.
So, given this behavior and lack of corrective and apologetic follow-up I’ve decide to first “go dark” for months so as to be able to think it through. Then after these several months now I’ve decided to stay off the forum and to not renew membership. Like others in recent past (board membership mass exoduses) I’ve decided to stand-bye for a leadership change and some sort of moderation of the moderators when needed. In the mean time there are several C4 Facebook groups that I frequent and of course other ZR-1 forums from time to time.
As an aside, there are those that throw around terms such as “condescending” but don’t fully know the meaning of the term. To disagree does not equate to condescension. It reminds me of a movie, “Princess Bride” where the guy refers to many things as “inconceivable” but in fact things were only inconceivable to him.
Am I a perfectly well behaved member? Not always.
But then I'm not a moderator so.......
See y'all around.:wave:
I’ve been a member of the ZR-1 community for 17yrs through the various name changes of the club dating back to “Larry”.
I’d like to think in those 17 yrs I’ve had an overall positive impact on the preservation of the ZR-1 buy helping others through issues with the car. I’ve attended 4 gatherings in Bowling Green and met many notables ZR-1 figures.
I was going to just silently fade away but at the urging of others I’ve decided to explain why I will not be renewing my membership.
It comes down to this.
What is the role of a “moderator”?
To my way of thinking it’s to moderate. The #1 definition is:
“make or become less extreme, intense, rigorous, or violent.”
Back a few months on a thread in the forum I was attacked and humiliated by a moderator for something that happened on a completely different online forum. Not only was this outrageously WRONG for a moderator to do but in substance wrong also. (the mentioned topic resolution on that forum went in my favor). At that time I raised the issue to the president. I was told by the president that I had been “condescending” in the past to him consequently nothing happened to correct the current issue. No “moderating” of the moderator involved happened.
So, given this behavior and lack of corrective and apologetic follow-up I’ve decide to first “go dark” for months so as to be able to think it through. Then after these several months now I’ve decided to stay off the forum and to not renew membership. Like others in recent past (board membership mass exoduses) I’ve decided to stand-bye for a leadership change and some sort of moderation of the moderators when needed. In the mean time there are several C4 Facebook groups that I frequent and of course other ZR-1 forums from time to time.
As an aside, there are those that throw around terms such as “condescending” but don’t fully know the meaning of the term. To disagree does not equate to condescension. It reminds me of a movie, “Princess Bride” where the guy refers to many things as “inconceivable” but in fact things were only inconceivable to him.
Am I a perfectly well behaved member? Not always.
But then I'm not a moderator so.......
See y'all around.:wave: