Re: Interested in a moderated theory forum?

From: Dawn M. Wolthuis <dwolt_at_tincat-group.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 11:24:38 -0600
Message-ID: <buh3t0$67b$1@news.netins.net>

"Marshall Spight" <mspight_at_dnai.com> wrote in message news:zlFOb.80887$sv6.189450_at_attbi_s52...
> "Bob Badour" <bbadour_at_golden.net> wrote in message
news:Afidna3v8dKtOZfdRVn-ig_at_golden.net...
> >
> > If the moderators are that ignorant of something so basic, I see no
value in
> > the forum. It is far more likely the moderators will censor the helpful
and
> > accurate posts than the complete garbage.
>
> Moderation is about form, tone and politeness, not content.
>
>
> Marshall

And oddly enough, in this unmoderated forum, the content is squashed more than it would be in a moderated forum by the very unfriendly self-moderating approach to deter non-relational theorists from contributing. It does not appear that those working with digraphs, OO, XML, or other non-RDBMS data models are welcome. Content is restricted to relational as much as possible by use of intimidation, name calling, or whatever so that only a stubborn Fresian like me would be persistent.

I would MUCH prefer to have an open forum related to database theory where those working with a variety of database theories would be welcomed into the dialog. The cdt group might better be named comp.databases.relational.theory from what I have seen.

--dawn Received on Mon Jan 19 2004 - 11:24:38 CST