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Recommend Common Sense Feedback System
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23 August 2014
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STOP CENSORING LEGITIMATE CRITICISM
Site Moderator Cryonicsculture keeps censoring this post, which doesn't violate any rules. Are our leaders really so fragile that they can't tolerate any "feedback"? The ugly misogynist post which I quote has been edited so there is no reason at all to censor this. Let's see what happens.
Longecity Board of Directors
Greetings,
Thank you for serving on the Board. Having spent two years heavily using the site, I hope for the return of the common sense feedback system that was here when I got here. If you wanted to respond to something someone said, you posted something on the thread or blog post in your own name. This encouraged people to think before they posted. When people didn't have anything constructive to say, they often said nothing, especially about a personal post. That was best.
I also found the star system as it was used at that time to be helpful. I've studied supplements for thirty-five years. I've made my own supplements. I call supplement companies to ask them questions. I had five stars, as did some with doctorates or superior knowledge. Our voices carried over those of disturbed teenagers. After that system was undone, I had to work twice as hard to be heard half as much. Some of us had the unsettling experience of having a young man who was in and out of a mental institutions being the preferred source of information about a man's girlfriend's gynecological problem. He barked out nonsense in a very authoritative fashion. He probably learned how doctors talk from being institutionalized so many times. He posted about this later. I believe he had probably never been intimate with a woman.
At the time the star system was first instituted, I think it was primarily used by administrators because no one else understood it. Those running the site then probably voted the knowledgable ones up. I'm not aware of anyone voting anyone down, if they had that capacity. I wish we could replicate that dynamic. I recommend that the administrators vote stars to people or their posts. Perhaps selected others could vote stars to people or posts, like people with stars themselves? And no one could vote anything down.
I've gotten negative feedback on the new system for questioning people injecting things they bought on the internet into themselves [ill-informed]. We know from experience that addicts and misogynists vote down posts that question their beliefs, sometimes going through unrelated posts by that person and voting them down too. A guy got negative feedback on the new system for working on his supplement stack [pointless]. When I first saw it, a pro-rape comment by The Fountain had received one like and one dislike:
TheFountain Re: Take Responsibility For Your Problems with Women
Posted 17 June 2014 - 02:37 PM
I am tired of hearing about what women want. What about what we hairy testicled man beasts want for a change?
This entire life is about what women want. [Ensues an ugly pro-rape post from a disturbed site user which many people saw and did nothing about until I did something about it.]
Who agrees?
Post not even as bad as this recently caused another female contributor to tell me she was leaving.
Anonymous feedback on a site with so many disturbed people has not worked out. We saw this with the last anonymous system where I, as a vocal female, went from having five stars to having perhaps the worst "reputation" while remaining exactly the same. I suddenly found myself wearing an unearned dunce cap due to other people's disturbances. That sucked. Women already have a hard time at this site and are under-represented. While the graphics are attractive, unfortunately the new system has already increased the number of unpleasant experiences and the difficulty of using this site productively. What makes any site attractive is having more good experiences than bad ones. I feel that system in place a few years ago did that best. As one of the most active site users, I recommend that the new system be scrapped entirely. Common sense was the best system.
I remain available to act as a moderator. There are often no active female moderators.
Thank you for your consideration.
Site Moderator Cryonicsculture keeps censoring this post, which doesn't violate any rules. Are our leaders really so fragile that they can't tolerate any "feedback"? The ugly misogynist post which I quote has been edited so there is no reason at all to censor this. Let's see what happens.
Longecity Board of Directors
Greetings,
Thank you for serving on the Board. Having spent two years heavily using the site, I hope for the return of the common sense feedback system that was here when I got here. If you wanted to respond to something someone said, you posted something on the thread or blog post in your own name. This encouraged people to think before they posted. When people didn't have anything constructive to say, they often said nothing, especially about a personal post. That was best.
I also found the star system as it was used at that time to be helpful. I've studied supplements for thirty-five years. I've made my own supplements. I call supplement companies to ask them questions. I had five stars, as did some with doctorates or superior knowledge. Our voices carried over those of disturbed teenagers. After that system was undone, I had to work twice as hard to be heard half as much. Some of us had the unsettling experience of having a young man who was in and out of a mental institutions being the preferred source of information about a man's girlfriend's gynecological problem. He barked out nonsense in a very authoritative fashion. He probably learned how doctors talk from being institutionalized so many times. He posted about this later. I believe he had probably never been intimate with a woman.
At the time the star system was first instituted, I think it was primarily used by administrators because no one else understood it. Those running the site then probably voted the knowledgable ones up. I'm not aware of anyone voting anyone down, if they had that capacity. I wish we could replicate that dynamic. I recommend that the administrators vote stars to people or their posts. Perhaps selected others could vote stars to people or posts, like people with stars themselves? And no one could vote anything down.
I've gotten negative feedback on the new system for questioning people injecting things they bought on the internet into themselves [ill-informed]. We know from experience that addicts and misogynists vote down posts that question their beliefs, sometimes going through unrelated posts by that person and voting them down too. A guy got negative feedback on the new system for working on his supplement stack [pointless]. When I first saw it, a pro-rape comment by The Fountain had received one like and one dislike:
TheFountain Re: Take Responsibility For Your Problems with Women
Posted 17 June 2014 - 02:37 PM
I am tired of hearing about what women want. What about what we hairy testicled man beasts want for a change?
This entire life is about what women want. [Ensues an ugly pro-rape post from a disturbed site user which many people saw and did nothing about until I did something about it.]
Who agrees?
dislike x 2
like x 1
Post not even as bad as this recently caused another female contributor to tell me she was leaving.
Anonymous feedback on a site with so many disturbed people has not worked out. We saw this with the last anonymous system where I, as a vocal female, went from having five stars to having perhaps the worst "reputation" while remaining exactly the same. I suddenly found myself wearing an unearned dunce cap due to other people's disturbances. That sucked. Women already have a hard time at this site and are under-represented. While the graphics are attractive, unfortunately the new system has already increased the number of unpleasant experiences and the difficulty of using this site productively. What makes any site attractive is having more good experiences than bad ones. I feel that system in place a few years ago did that best. As one of the most active site users, I recommend that the new system be scrapped entirely. Common sense was the best system.
I remain available to act as a moderator. There are often no active female moderators.
Thank you for your consideration.
