"Moderation", and truth versus defamation - Page 2

 Read the bottom of the screen....some forget this is what it says:

"All trademarks and copyrights held by respective owners. Member comments are owned by the poster."

I hear teenie tiny little violens playing far off in the distance.
I can see the moon coming on.

The forum owner would still have a responsibility for due dilligence moderation to ensure libellous statements are removed, imo.   The reason is, the statements are coming from anonymous posters.  If everyone used their real names - they could get sued personally much easier.  One can't offer an insulation of identity and not attract  liability for the statements, I think. 

What is your problem?  So what if it is the person from vonfelsenhof?   I saw her post as vonfelsenhof and it changed to "moderator".  So she's now a moderator.  I'm not sure what your issue is?

DO some research.
Oli has not said it is so.

Do you know who vom Velsenhof is???

haven't a clue.  Don't care.  As long as the moderation is even handed and correctly done. 

Moons,

I'm not a regular here and mostly keep quiet but, forgive me, this one is just too funny to resist.
This piece of drama is your doing... voting and all. 

How about em apples now?

Truthfully, I have no idea who "Moderator" is...

...Nor do I care.

For all I know, it might be someone I know in real life, or it might be someone on the other side of the ocean from me who I'll probably never meet. I'm not interested in "who" or any speculation thereof. Ultimately that seems irrelevant to me because it wouldn't matter who it was/is; I do not think the haphazard methods of enforcing the ToS are done in a gainful manner.

I'm not here for the who's who of the PDB. I'm here for the dogs, dog-related info, and admittedly the occasional humourous OT post.


That being said, I don't like the actions and behaviors of certain posters, but I don't like the highly selective deletions either. I'd prefer to see an all-or-none approach... but even more than that I'd like to see posters stop chasing each others' tails over things that might not be something they like to hear or see posted, and see a modding system that is more supportive than combative towards the posters on this forum.



A tangental excerpt from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series:
 

"In cases of major discrepancy it’s always reality that’s got it wrong.

"...It said “The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.” This has led to some interesting consequences. For instance, when the Editors of the Guide were sued by the families of those who had died as a result of taking the entry on the planet Traal literally (it said “Ravenous Bugblatter beasts often make a very good meal for visiting tourists” instead of “Ravenous Bugblatter beasts often make a very good meal of visiting tourists") they claimed that the first version of the sentence was the more aesthetically pleasing, summoned a qualified poet to testify under oath that beauty was truth, truth beauty and hoped thereby to prove that the guilty party was Life itself for failing to be either beautiful or true. The judges concurred, and in a moving speech held that Life itself was in contempt of court, and duly confiscated it from all those there present before going off to enjoy a pleasant evening’s ultragolf.

Every breeder, sooner or later, is going to throw a dog with a health problem or serious fault. Sometimes in spite of our best efforts, it just happens. And when someone puppy shopping asks for experience about a particular dog or breeder, it IS pertinent information.

NOW, if that breeders handles the situation beautifully, treats the buyer fairly, and it is clear that the problem in question was either a fluke or the breeder chose to not repeat the combination that caused the problem, there is nothing to be ashamed of or angry over, as a the breeder.  Having morality and doing good business is more worthy of pride, I think that the dogs themselves.

We can only control so much, and I, for one, would not judge someone for throwing an unhealthy dog, only how they treat their buyer. Intelligent, experienced people also know there is more than one side to every story.  So if one is doing the right thing, there is NO reason to attempt to block comments on this board or any other.

People can make aliases and come on here and lie through their teeth and make up a story, too. If a breeders calls them out on it,  and the poster fails to provide tangible proof, who is going to believe them? No one with experience and a heqad on their shoulders, that's for sure.

I'd rather see the racist, anti semitic crap, the on going trailer park wars, and the nasty feuds over dogs that arent even GSDs go poof before stuff like this.