The Question and Answer Board

[The Original dpb5!]

Matt,

Since you are asking...

I really do understand your desire to be playful with wrongdoers and sometimes even too playful with NON wrongdoers, I have to say that sometimes your playfulness can easily be misread on the Internet as arrogance. (Frankly, same holds true for Bob!)

I think that everybody that uses IHUB loves IHUB! But when issues arise I think that many who may have thoughts simply do not post them for fear of getting into a "pissing match" (sorry for the "..." {a recent example of how you posted arrogantly, remember?})

My memory serves that you started this website to be a community website. I believe that you still have that desire. However, at the same time, it seems that whenever a member has an issue that you and/or Bob seem uncomfortable with for whatever reasons, you both tend to reply in a manner that can be conceived that individual members don't mean much to IHUB in the long term scheme of things.

I think that your question relates mostly to Professionalism.

And as it relates to that in my mind, I would have to agree that YES, professionalism is necessary as a long term goal in keeping members of this community interested in hanging around. We all know what Raging Bull has done to disorient users over the years.

As much as you enjoy the interactivity associated with the Jail and the maintenance of sensibility throughout the website, it remains my opinion that IHUB would be better suited to allow longterm members to be recruited to oversee some of this administrative duty. This would not only take the burden off of you about "being the bad guy", but would also show to other members of the website that this truly IS a community.

Any one person will not always make the best administrative choices, so it only makes sense to spread those administrative duties out into the membership. I can think of at LEAST ten members of IHUB who have qualities that would add to the sense of community in this regard. And I doubt that a one of them would want or expect any payment for these community services.

You know that even I have suggested things in the past that would encourage this community involvement, but each time that I have it seemed to be ignored as unimportant. As the website grows, the importance grows larger each day!

These are my thoughts on the issue, but the final decision is, as usual, up to you. It is, after all, your's and Bob's website.