All Forum Volunteers Should Be Required to Leave a Way to Be Contacted
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I’ve had a disagreement with another regular volunteer. I would like to resolve that, but the person does not have a link to be contacted. I have offered my email address, but then was dictated by another regular forum person, that contact with said person was not necessary. I believe in resolving disagreements in a professional manner, off of forums. Which is why I think that all who offer advice, need to have a way to be contacted. I’d also like to encourage all not to take on what appears like a ‘pack mentality’ where more established forum volunteers gang up on someone else. We’re all here to help people. Disagreements will happen. Thoughts?
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What I mean ros, is a link. Like you have a link, so someone could go to your blog, and leave a comment if they needed to discuss something with you. As it stands now, someone could be a nuisance to another forum volunteer or to a person with a question, and one can’t even contact them! In my situation, I’ve offered my email. But strangely was told this by another establish forum volunteer:
Playing the mother role with words more eloquent than my own.
There seems no reason that you dislike panaghiotisadam so much. And vice versa.panaghiotisadam has a private blog (in Greek), has never asked for help in the forum, and has offered excellent advice here in the forum. There is no point in you making contact. There is no point in confrontations.
A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party: there is no battle unless there be two.
[Lat., Cadit statim simultas, ab altera parte deserta; nisi pariter, non pugnant.]
– Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), De Ira
(II, 34)or in simple words:
cut it outAnd that feels very much like pack mentality. I’ve offered an olive branch, and in steps another volunteer? There should be a way for volunteers to be contacted. End.of.story.
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Wow this is getting out of hand this is a bunch of non sense
people should have the right including volunteers to include
or not to include a contact link at there discretion.Can we please just let this argument go & get back to the point
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Well, if I were coming here for help and didn’t like the way someone was talking to me, I’d sure want a link to speak with them; especially if the “pack” joins up alongside such person. So, yeah, IMHO no link leaves the door wide open for trolling.
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I’m not joining the pack I’m not here in the forum for that reason
the only reason why I said something is because of your demanding
forum topic headline I have better things to do the site here & debate
back & forth with you. For example helping out members that come to these
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That’s fine, teck. But I really do think staff needs to address it. I too am in the forums, helping out, while checking on this thread :)
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If anyone were to start leaving comments on my blog about arguments on the forum, there would be no discussion. They would be banned. Immediately.
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Ros – If someone contacted you on your blog to say, “We had a disagreement, let’s work this out?” You’d ban them, immediately? Seems better to do in private than haggle on a forum. No?
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If anyone were to start leaving comments on my blog about arguments on the forum, there would be no discussion. They would be banned. Immediately.
I agree I would do the same there is no reason why my readers should
have to see those type of comments.Same with the email I most likely wouldn’t reply back.
if it was about a disagreement in the forums.I look it as everyone is en titled to there opinion
& should leave at that & not contact the person just
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In what way is a discussion on my blog private? If it’s a disagreement about something in the forum, sort it out in the forum. But in general, I find it’s better not to get into that sort of debate in the first place.
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Why would you think that contacting someone would be keeping it going without an audience? I thought that was the civil thing to do? To resolve things and move on.
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Well, ros I have been trying to sort it out on the forum. But….um…..it’s not going so hot. Which is why I think that people need to leave a way to be contacted. I come here to volunteer help too, not to be trolled from thread-to-thread by the same volunteer; picking fights. I’m responsible for the behavior too. It’s not one-sided. But, I think that all should have a way to be contacted. Cuz it does leave the door open for trolling.
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When I say ‘sort it out on the forum’, it strikes me that the simplest way to do that is often simply to apologise and then walk away. I haven’t noticed you doing a lot of that.
Contacting someone elsewhere is not going to solve anything. It’s more likely to make the other person feel that they are been harassed. Especially if you do it publicly on their blog.
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O wow, I did not mean to do publicly on a blog or harass. I mean to leave a message to contact. Curious why one would think that the option to contact another volunteer would imply harassment. you’ve had your link up for quite some time. So have I. No one’s harassed me. I’ve had a few who’ve come to my blog to comment, but no harassment.
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Curious why one would think that the option to contact another volunteer would imply harassment.
I would think this because of the way that I have seen you behave on the forum in the last few days. Letting things go does not seem to be your strong point.
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Um, ros – have you followed the way the threads have gone? Cuz I’ve repeated myself at least 3 times to let me go cuz I’ve already let you go :)
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Which is why I think staff needs to address this. As far as I’m concerned I’ve been trolled. I tried to civilly resolve by offering my email, and asking if way to contact them. Staff has even intervened and asked that we both stop hijacking blogs!
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Cuz I’ve repeated myself at least 3 times to let me go cuz I’ve already let you go :)
Saying this =/= letting things go. Saying it = carrying things on.
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