2008 Finley Award Winners
Sun, 18 Jan 2009, 02:45 pmKimberley93 posts in thread
2008 Finley Award Winners
Sun, 18 Jan 2009, 02:45 pmPopping bubbles
Tue, 3 Feb 2009, 10:36 pmHate to pop your bubbles Jmuzz and Robert but Logos is entirely correct.
Logos' vote last night was sufficient to tip the DavidWilding39 post into oblivion.
For those that are interested, there's a complex weighting system in place for votes. A post starts with a certain number of points depending on whether it was contributed by a new member, a contributor, editor or admin. A range of positive and negative vote values are available when moderating. Votes from the members with various roles also vary in value. The value of all votes is added together. If a post has sufficient votes, its score may eventually reach a threshold where the post is promoted to the home page. However, if it is given negative votes, as with the DavidWilding39 post, it can be voted out of existence.
I should probably provide a little barometer that lets people know when a post or comment is about to disappear or be promoted and then you can decide whether you want your vote to tip it one way or the other.... hmmm....
Jmuzz wrote:
> For a start, the ITA doesn't run this site -
> any Walter can post (which
is rapidly proving to be
> it's undoing). The ITA neither monitors or
moderates
> any of the comments. Removal of any comments is
> solely the
responsibility of the non-ITA appointed web
> administrator who is VERY
loathe to delete anything as
> he believes it discourages free speech.
Strictly speaking Jmuzz is correct that the ITA has little if anything to do with the administration of this site. While I originally developed this site nearly 11 years ago to further some of the objectives of the ITA, the particular objectives in question were always bigger and broader than the ITA membership itself and the site reflects this broader scope.
However, while I support freedom of expression, I don't regard myself as an advocate of speech free from responsibility. While I argue occasionally for tolerance of alternative views and modes of expression, my reasons for only deleting content in response to specific and particular complaints and not deleting anything at a personal whim are far more practical. Like the disclaimer says, if you post it - it's your responsibility. If you don't like something someone says here, complain to me and I'll remove it. That's a responsibility I'm willing to fulfill.
In case a very few people were too busy whinging about awards to notice, there's an awful lot of other productive and useful things happening on this site. In the past week alone 42 new events and topics and more than 180 comments were added! That's about thirty new things per day.
So enough of this. Go and join a useful thread:
http://www.theatre.asn.au/billboard_bulletins/10_things_i_love_about_the_ita
:-)
Cheers
Grant
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Director, actor and administrator of this website
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