I am concerned that there has not been a single response beyond this to the aggrieved user's post yet.
Parker
On 2/18/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
Hi, Samuel. Good pseudonym choice, by the way; I loved that movie.
Samuel L Bronkowitz wrote:
I did not send "8 messages in a row." I sent updates, when new
developments
happened.
I see that the "moderation" system put them in all at once, and I got
eight
"your comment is being moderated" notices at once.
Since you obviously do not care about systemic abuse, feel free to just
not
read my emails.
People here do care a lot about systemic abuse.
I think the problem you're running into is that a lot of people who end up on the unhappy end of some administrative action feel they are being abused, so we don't see a lot of correlation between accusations of abuse and actual abuse. That doesn't mean we don't care, but it does mean you probably won't get the instant and vigorous reaction you were hoping for.
Further, you sent a lot of long messages in a short span of time, without waiting for a reaction. When writing to a large mailing list, anything you send takes up a lot of human time. I'm sure you didn't mean to give this impression, but demanding that people pay attention to that kind of volume doesn't demonstrate much respect for their time. A better approach would be to write one short, clear email and then wait for somebody to ask you for more details.
And lastly, your messages came across to me as strident and demanding, messages from somebody who felt slighted and upset. I'm sorry you felt that way, but expressing that so strongly in your emails doesn't help your cause. The people here see a lot of drama, most of it unnecessary, and all of it wearying. There's also a negative correlation between the amount of strong negative emotion in a message and its utility. So in the future you're probably better off waiting until you cool down some.
Does that help?
Regards,
William
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