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Originally posted by hikatz
[quote]Originally posted by mgeary
PunaWeb is at it's best when people share their Hawaiian experiences with aloha, helping each other, educating each other, even just playing silly sometimes....
...People deserve to be treated with respect, given the benefit of the doubt, just be plain courteous to each other goes a long way!
Live Aloha (http://www.kapu.com/livealoha.php)
Rob, thank you, your vision of Punaweb turned it into a reality, it will be our loss if you ever decided to close it down!
Ditto that. Mahalo Rob
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I agree with hikatz and Lee on this one!
Aloha au i Hawai`i,
devany
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Originally posted by mella l
LOL Carol, take a look now there are 18 guests! Adverting does help. Wow! and a Lack cartoon, samdoody, oink and jon p camp hang out!
mella l
NOT jon P. He's just Jon. I'm JonP. Dang...
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I'm a moderator on a fairly large forum (50,000+ members) and the job is not easy - you gotta be tough and when you finally have to enforce the rules you look like an a**. It's tricky in that this enforcement can serve to drive some people away and more or less "homogenize' the forum as a whole. This can result moving toward boring (expected) responses and mundane postings -the forum then lacks "color". There comes an over-riding "fear" of breaking the rules and now you will get people who "ride the line" and enjoy seeing how close they can get to the edge without "falling off".
The "forum evolution" another poster is right on - I've seen it myself. People get banned from one forum only to form another. As far as I'm concerned there is nothing wrong with it - you don't like my sandbox, go build your own.
What I DON'T like are people from one forum sniping at people on other forums. Cross-forum "wars" never end well. I will immediately ban from the forum I'm on anyone that makes fun of someone who has been banned and reprimanded by me.
Rob, Don't take this as me telling how how to do your job and run your forum, 'cause it isn't. I'm just talking about my experience FWIW.
I enjoy this forum a LOT and I have learned a LOT baout Hawai'i in general and Puna in particular. I hope to continue to contribute at least in a small way here.
Puna: Our roosters crow first
