Should Theatre Australia Members Only be allowed to post
Sat, 15 Mar 2008, 08:23 amalanm23 posts in thread
Should Theatre Australia Members Only be allowed to post
Sat, 15 Mar 2008, 08:23 amThere have been an increasing number of incidents where 'anonymous' posters have used the freedom offered by the ITA's website to be offensive and downright rude. Most of you who use the site from time to time will have come across the term 'not verified' next to a name used in a posting, this indicates that this person does not have an account or has not logged on.
Some people feel that the ITA's website is losing it's credibility by having postings which are offensive, others stand up for free speech.
Under a 'members only' scheme, people would be required to have an official email address (which would need to be verified)before they can join and post. This means that those in our community who choose to post 'knee jerk' reactive comments would be slowed down.
Although it is relatively easy to set up free email accounts, it still requires a degree of effort and it would allow 'offensive' posters memberships to be terminated or suspended.
Now there's a thought, I wonder what the general consensus is, no doubt I will find out.
Response
Sun, 16 Mar 2008, 10:50 amI have to say that I take no offense at your remarks as i hope you took none at mine. I do not know the Perth scene and as I hope i tried to make clear I was postulating.
Situations sometimes arise because there is no one else who wants to do the job or because perhaps one person simply has a vision that pushes on. There is no intent to create a clique and from the sounds of it there is no clique. I was just commenting that to an outsider there can sometimes seem to be a charmed circle that you need to enter.
I don't entirely agree with moderating off everything that a single poster puts on, as you suggest. But I do agree that both Ripper and Sting often go too far. Although I do not believe that all posts labeled with Stings name are the original Sting.
Is that all there is? Well if that's all there is my friend, then let's keep dancing.
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