[MR] Please Stop Re: Predator - Caught!

[Maymunah al Siqilliyah]

He said this "again, if parents protected their children we wouldnt have 
this topic."  and this "if you made a baby you made a job. do it. 
nothing else need be said!"

It's really hard to interpret that any way except that parents and only 
parents are responsible for child molestation.  I am not "crucifying" 
him because he's Duke Logan; honestly I could give a rat's hind end 
about rank in this particular context.  I'm speaking to a very specific 
statement that, in my opinion and (from comments I am getting) in the 
opinion of quite a few other's,  did NOT "need" to be said.

The topic of "dropping it" is an interesting one.  I note that people 
generally want the conversation to be dropped immediately AFTER they 
have had their own 2 cents thrown in.  But it does bring up the subject 
of moderation.  The moderator of this list said only a few days ago that 
he did not, in fact, moderate this list and has not for some time.  I 
totally understand that he may not have the time, but any email list 
without a moderator is headed into the gutter fast.  To me, this 
conversation should have been stopped before any of this was said and 
trying to stop it now is going to be difficult without making it look as 
if you are taking sides.  I work with a group of people moderating a 
blog that is very focused in topic and we don't allow political 
discussions, religious discussions, or long or frequent off topic 
discussions. We will not tolerate those who regularly engage in personal 
attacks and we have put people in moderation for hogging the 
conversation or trying to divert the conversation to them.  We tag team 
to cover work, vacations and attacks of life.  We communicate with each 
other to maintain a sense of consistency so the readers are not 
immediately aware of exactly who is doing the moderating at any 
particular time.  We sometimes reluctantly ban people who will not 
comply.  I suggest that the Merry Rose could really benefit from such a 
team of moderators and I would willingly volunteer to be on such a team. 
   I don't know who really "owns" this list but I suspect that it falls 
under the Kingdom Web Minister.   For all our sanity, I strongly suggest 
that some form of moderation be instituted on this list.


On 8/24/2011 11:51 AM, Fen & Michelle wrote:
> "You potentially just told real people, maybe even people you know,  that
> they do not have anyone but themselves to blame for such horrific harm
> to their children, because they are lazy and don't care about their
> kids."
>
>
>
> Thats not what I heard.  I heard him lamenting that these days, more and more
> children are seen running around unsupervised. And you know what, he could be
> wrong. But could we stop beating him up for it? I know he can handle himself, but
> its gets tiresome how everyone seems to go after him with such vitroil.
>
>   
> I don't know why it is, maybe a desire "to speak truth to power"... but if 2 people
> both say the something contraversial, and one of them is Logan, we start building
> a cross to crucify him on. While giving the other guy a slap on the wrist.
>
> What needed to be said has been said.  Can we please just drop it?
>
> Cheers
> Fen
>