|
Humans create accounts (abstract collection of data) upon which they place value sufficient for posting and messaging.
Humans create an username (an artifact of pixels) which symbolizes the account they have on a forum (a collection of accounts) for which they will really argue and annoy (nothing unusual here).
Humans require accounts upon which others can understand what user is being annoying and give admins sufficient purpose for deleting, editing, and banning.
Because humans can create their own accounts why does our forum place meaning into such accounts (usernames, passwords) as coberst, urbane guerilla, radar, etc?
The freedom we have to create accounts is poorly used, why?
Why do we waste such a precious freedom on such ridiculous morons?
We do so because we lack the courage (as moderators) to ban, against the flow.
Our adaptation to the internet as infantile and childish posters has left us without the courage and confidence required to go against the flow of forums. We have the freedom but not the energy and courage to ban the blind posters of nonsense.
We are not determined moderators; we do have the potential to do much better. How can we overcome what we have become and thus become something better?
We can overcome our present predicament by creating a new forum, a new set of meaningful posts that we read to get smarter.
Moderation is the instrument by which we can ban accounts.
|