Thanks for your balanced responses Tim. I would just like to stress the need for due process (whether formal or evolved). The ticket for guidelines could be prove to be a bit of a distraction without it.
Some clarity on roles of PHMs and others would also help.
I have been delighted with the two partners Mediatouch and pTeppic with whom I have done hosting business but I would like to know the rationale behind the partner programme and how it will pan out worldwide.
Frances Bell
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Thanks for this sensible and pragmatic solution.
Not all the posts have been about the right to talk about Nazis and sexuality though. I think there is some genuine uncertainty about who does what and why in Moodle. I am now really unclear about the role of PHMs and partners for example. In Using Moodle, I could see who the moderators were but hadn't realised that a posting from Julian could be a warning.
I know that I have spent too much time on the Social forum in the last few days but one of the reasons for the time I spent was to try to understand more about how the Moodle community works and where it is going.
At one level, this has just been a lot of hot air but at another it indicates puzzlement and the surfacing of questions that have been bubbling under for some time. Where can dialogue take place about such things?
Not all the posts have been about the right to talk about Nazis and sexuality though. I think there is some genuine uncertainty about who does what and why in Moodle. I am now really unclear about the role of PHMs and partners for example. In Using Moodle, I could see who the moderators were but hadn't realised that a posting from Julian could be a warning.
I know that I have spent too much time on the Social forum in the last few days but one of the reasons for the time I spent was to try to understand more about how the Moodle community works and where it is going.
At one level, this has just been a lot of hot air but at another it indicates puzzlement and the surfacing of questions that have been bubbling under for some time. Where can dialogue take place about such things?
Dan,
I do think that some sort of guidelines might help here (I am somone who has written boring academic papers on this matter - the more's the pity
) but sadly it's not the lack of guidelines that's the problem IMHO. Dear Art has been brave enough to stick his head above the parapet (or perhaps another part of his anatomy given that he is claiming a spanking 
) but there has been nothing from the people who objected to and effected the removal of the thread. The norms of a community can be observed from rules and guidelines or from the behaviour of its members. What can we observe here is no rules and no dialogue with the action-takers, and a lot of fluffy talk from objectors like myself.
If this silence is intended to allow things to blow over, I don't think it's going to work.
I do think that some sort of guidelines might help here (I am somone who has written boring academic papers on this matter - the more's the pity
) but there has been nothing from the people who objected to and effected the removal of the thread. The norms of a community can be observed from rules and guidelines or from the behaviour of its members. What can we observe here is no rules and no dialogue with the action-takers, and a lot of fluffy talk from objectors like myself.If this silence is intended to allow things to blow over, I don't think it's going to work.
1. Topic format
2. Don't know
3. Around and About Moodle
2. Don't know
3. Around and About Moodle
With such rich data from few cases, you might be better looking at the how and why rather than the whether questions.
Also. it might be quite good not to suggest that you have made up your mind in advance But I am sure you haven't
Also. it might be quite good not to suggest that you have made up your mind in advance