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*sigh* Ok, so noone got the cant connect error, but its only by good fortune. Just after I posted that entry, I checked the database and it had a HUGE bunch of locks… So tonight, in the next few minutes (sorry for short notice!) I shall be downing the database and installing a (much) later…
I have tried to reply to your e-mails – your AOL account replies with ‘This user is not accepting mail from this sender’. Please make sure, if you expect a reply from someone, that your AOL account is not set to block external mail! (That goes for anyone, not just the user named above of…
Ok, after all the pain of the last week you’d think I’d be over it… I am. But I have to move to a new server because otherwise DearDiary will be on a server on its own and it can’t afford to pay for that – so it has to go where all the other…
Would Premium users have access to PERL and PHP, so they can do interactive site things? Likewise – dare I hope – a mySQL database of their own? While a static site is nice – what would really add value for me is the ability to have scriptinf and mySQL database capabilties. Hosting will be…
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I agree that it is too much for one person to do. I’ll give it more thought, but one suggestion would be to form some sort of committee to handle such things. By gathering a group of users who are familiar with the system, you would have a democratic way to resolve disputes and determine if policies are being broken.
Hope this helps!
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a group of persons helping to resolve disputes is a good idea, however, choosing who would be in this group will be a bit difficult. perhaps a stronger rule such as the following will deter those who hide behind a monitor and keyboard from taking it as far as what i and other users have had to deal with recently: i feel that once there is valid proof that any user has crossed from online to offline to harass another diarist/user…that person should automatically lose their privileges to write at this site. there have been many many arguments, disputes, etc, etc, etc, between diarists here and eventually they came to a resolution. noone, however, should have to deal with harassment at their workplace. this entire situation forced me to involve security, my boss, and staff members. it also affected the library’s homepage. our MIS department decided (for safety’s sake since i had forwarded the threat made towards lilith to security because it was the SAME voice that left messages on my machine) to exclude helpful contact information for the different departments. all staff names and phone numbers are now no longer available to students/faculty/employees where i work, because someone decided to step over the line.
i also believe that the number of diaries one person can have should be limited.
I agree with kaycee. Some sort of mini court. To decide what’s going on with the situation, and how to peacefully resolve it.
Mmmmm.. Hard question. I personally feel the responsibility for who gets busted for what falls to the site owners and operators. Unfortunately, it’s their site, their web space and a service they offer. I’d be all for the idea of judge and jury except for one fact. Impartiality. It doesn’t exist in this forum. To many people dislike to many others. Even the way people have responded to a certain DD being absentee is indicative of that fact.
I’m sorry, but impartiality is not possible. There’s to much sniping and cliquish behaviour to achieve that, so, still, it’s up to one or two people to determine how their site is run. Not the community as a whole. If so many of these people couldn’t even resolve their between user issues without resorting to petty name calling, not to mention the root of this issue, stalker like behaviour, then how would it be possible to gain a fair, court-like system?