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OneMoreRobot3021 said:
You know what that reminds me of?

That wall they built...the Berlin Wall.


Or the one they're building now to separate the Jews and the Arabs.


Making it so people can't see/pay mind to one another is no solution to any problem whatsoever.

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Wow, you really made a mountain out of nothing there.

I can't personally relate blocking two people from each other on a website to blocking off whole areas of land with giant concrete walls and gun towers.

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ifallapart said:
To me, this all sounds like uptight nonsense. As far as I'm concerned, a lot of people, myself included in the past, take stuff way too seriously, given the fact that this is ONLINE.

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I'm witcha on this one.  Online or not, people are way too quick to overreact and though we can't change this, I don't think some jury is going to be anymore effective than the moderator/admin structure that we currently have in place.  This will simply be adding a new level to the heirarchy and perhaps making conflicts MORE difficult to resolve due to the increased number of opinions being taken into account.

I am not one to believe that any proposed system will be able to resolve the root of the drama that underlies this community, which is truly a microcosm of our entire human population.  Drama is something that is in my opinion, only resolved within each individual, and it would be unrealistic to expect an entire grouping of different minds to collectively erradicate their passion for their differences in opinion, which is ultimately what leads to drama.


> if you're one of the parties involved in a conflict it suddenly
> becomes very important that there's a system is place for
> prompt unbiased resolution 

I may be getting a little out there on this one, but I truly do not believe that humans in our current level of thought are adequately equipped to provide unbiased resolution, in any circumstance,  online or not.  We need a system simple enough to be effective, and in this case I do believe that our current system is more efficient than the integration of a new system within it would be.


> I understand that is might not work, but as long as it doesn't
> take a lot of time to implement, we might as well give it a try.

As you may have gathered by my above tone, I think a comprehensive system of peer review would take an incredible amount of time to implement effectively, and even then I do not believe that what we may end up with will be much better than what we already have, save for perhaps a select few members that would receive a greater sense of ownership in this community through participation in such a review process.  While ideally I like people to become actively involved, I simply think that the drawbacks outweigh the perceived benefits since the goal here is not to improve a few persons' enjoyment, but to tackle the much larger phenomena of human reluctance to let go of the ego.

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ST341THN1NJ4 said:
well put ifallapart. i just kind of feel like the mod moral is very low. that some of the mods would rather see a fight for action instead of resolve things.

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