EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

On a fine day, 03-06-2005, Lenny Stearns wrote:

>I hope you'll reconsider, Sascha.  We've all benefited from your
>presence here.

Ditto -- as I already let Sascha know in private.  But let's consider 
the real issue: it seems Sascha leaves the group due to his messages 
being moderated just a few times too often.

Now I understand that the moderators use some guidelines to determine 
which messages get through and which don't.  Sascha, being critical 
as always (thanks for that!), wanted to point out that Macs aren't 
the problem-free machines they're often claimed to be, and vice versa 
for Windows PCs.  To the moderators this might come across as food 
for a platform war, and if such a post had been written by a newbie 
who hardly every contributed something useful to the list, I could 
see why they would moderate such a message.

However, in the case of Sascha who _always_ tries to be helpful (and 
often succeeds :) I do think the moderators missed their mark. 
Sascha is not some dum-*ss newbie looking for trouble, but he's a 
valuable contributor who's never shown signs of b/w-thinking or being 
shortsighted or prejudicial.  If such a person posts something 
regarding the supposed differences between Macs and PCs, I think he 
ought to have enough credits that such a post makes it to the list. 
If a clueless newbie then thinks he can reply to such a message with 
flame-material, than *that* message should be moderated.

In short: I truly think the moderators, despite the great job they do 
in their own free time (for which I am more than grateful), now 
simply made a (or a few) wrong decision(s).  And due to that, we now 
seem to be losing a valuable list-member.  And that sucks big time.
I understand that moderating lists such as these is a hell of a job, 
and I don't blame anyone if mistakes are made.  After all, we're all 
human.  But _if_ mistakes are made, one should also be able to say 
'sorry'.

The classy thing to do would be for the moderators to somehow 
convince Sascha to stay.

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Hendrik Jan Veenstra   h @ k n o w a r e . n l
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