What made Gav Iscon think he had the right to implement "The Poll" in the first place? His thread was a bit too much like a public lynching for my liking. I had privately and now publicly support George for removing it.
Livo, you are relatively new here, but if you read back through the archives you will see that I have consistently supported George through thick and thin [1], taking considerable flak in the process. But George's action in deleting an entire thread which was, in effect, a referendum, was the last straw. At that point, even I stopped supporting George. If George objected to the thread (as he had every right to do), then he should have used the "Report to moderator" button to draw it and its contents to his fellow moderator's attention; the two of them should then have discussed whether it was to be deleted or allowed to stay, and then announced their joint decision before any further action was taken. But to unilaterally delete the the thread was completely unacceptable behaviour from someone in a position of responsibility, and therefore, for the very first time, I was forced to accept that George's time as moderator must surely be at an end.
And I cannot agree that Gav's poll was in any way similar to a public lynching; it was, whether you accept my use of the word "democratic" in this context or not, an action based in the very roots of democracy -- the people rising up, spontaneously, to protest at the rule of a tyrant and demand his overthrow. In a lynching, the people are judge, jury and executioner -- in a poll such as Gav's, the people are simply the jury, reporting their findings to the judge (Stu) in public and awaiting his decision.
** Phil.
[1] Except when he made personal attacks on others, in which cases I reported the offending message using the "Report to moderator" button.
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