angry crow puking wrote[in part]:
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in his [Arthur Louie's] absence, incessant flame wars erupted, in part because a group of callous sophisticates who were long-time dylanpool users considered younger, newer and less knowledgeable users to be a nuisance
I don't agree, in general, with this statement.
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anyway, with arlo gone, threads tended to get out of control until arlo drastically compounded the problem by appointing two heavy-handed moderators who acted with bias, in secrecy and without explanation.
All humans act with bias, so that, to me, is a non-issue. Sometimes, it is necessary for moderators and administration to act in a confidential manner, and are not required to explain their every action to the users, in general.
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i don't blame arlo one bit for closing it when he did, but i do blame him for abandoning it in the first place. he need only have checked in once a week or so to maintain a presence, and that would have made all the difference.
I agree with the thrust of angry crow puking's remark, here. But Arthur did not want to be checking in once a week or so. Given this, what he failed to do was to grant his moderators
authority to ban or suspend a user's priveleges when they deemed it necessary.
It's not hard to understand why DylanPool failed: moderators without authority. That never works, no matter the enterprise.
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do i personally share some of the blame for the end of the old dylanpool? yes, sure i do. many of us do. and it saddens me to this day.
That acp acknowledges some blame is commendable. That he is still
saddened to this day, I find doubtful. But then that's just my opinion.
To say, however, that "many" share the blame for the demise of DylanPool, some perspective is needed. Think of the rotton apple that spoils all the apples in the box. Of the couple of hundred active contributors at the DPool forums, there were also about a dozen or so "bad actors." Some were "regulars," some not. So, to say that "many" share the blame, the reference needs to be made concerning many of the dozen or so.