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    Goodbye

    After several years and several thousand posts I have learned much and made friends. However, I have been increasingly disapointed with the moderation here and the time has come for me to leave.

    If anyone wants to contact me, please do so by email, jon.clarke @ bigpond.com (no spaces).

    Kind regards

    Jon

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    cheerio
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    Don't like the idea of another member going but good luck in all your endeavours.

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    Hi, I enjoyed your posts,Jon . You will be missed.
    Best regards always,
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    Best of luck.

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    Leave? No-one leaves the Church of Scientology.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JonClarke View Post
    After several years and several thousand posts I have learned much and made friends. However, I have been increasingly disapointed with the moderation here and the time has come for me to leave.

    If anyone wants to contact me, please do so by email, jon.clarke @ bigpond.com (no spaces).

    Kind regards

    Jon
    The geologists amongst us will miss you.

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    Goodbye, Jon. Have a nice life.

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    All the best, Jon!

    Thanks for your contributions and good luck for the future.

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    Clarke, you will always be my Superman. Geologically speaking at least.

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    The loss of a practicing geologist who specializes in Mars can not be a good thing for a forum. Goodk luck in your further endeavors. Perhaps we will cross paths yet again in another forum where Martian geological processes hold greater interest.

    borman

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    This thread is about one poster saying good bye and therefore should not be used to discuss moderations in general any further. If anyone has an issue with a specific moderation the rules lay down the official procedure for contesting such moderations.

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    The general moderation discussion has been split off into this thread
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    After recent events, I've decided to join Jon in leaving BAUT.

    Not only is the moderation increasingly disappointing - but the moderation team's response to genuine attempts to help improve are totally unacceptable.

    I used to recommend BAUT to people. No more. I don't know where I'll recommend now... nowhere, probably.

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    There are always genuine attempts to help improve moderation, and the mods can't accept all of them. They might even have discussed them before.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swift View Post
    The general moderation discussion has been split off into this thread
    A reminder

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    Quote Originally Posted by djellison View Post
    Not only is the moderation increasingly disappointing - but the moderation team's response to genuine attempts to help improve are totally unacceptable.
    That is your personal opinion...that the moderation here is "disappointing" to you..."unacceptable" to you...

    Others have differing opinions...there are no "absolutes".

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    I also find it disappointing, but not unacceptable to me.

    I'm happy to move on, though.

    CJSF
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    Bye Jon, bye Doug. Really sorry to see you leave, but thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience for as long as you did.
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    Quote Originally Posted by R.A.F. View Post
    That is your personal opinion...that the moderation here is "disappointing" to you..."unacceptable" to you...

    Others have differing opinions...there are no "absolutes".
    Of course they aren't absolutes, you're right. It was stated in terms that made it clear that was his opinion though.

    Sorry to see you go, Doug. I'll just echo what slang said, really.

    Does that mean you're also moving on, Christopher? I hope not, but hey, whatever makes you happy.

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    Okay...as indicated in post #13 and reinforced by the reminder in post #16, please take comments about moderation to the appropriate thread. This is a goodbye thread.
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    Guys, if you're upset, just go away for a few weeks to a few months, no reason to make a "so long cruel world" type post about it. I come and go for months at a time, but I've been doing it for over ten years. Why burn bridges when you don't have to?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ara Pacis View Post
    Why burn bridges when you don't have to?
    Since we don't ban or delete members for saying goodbye, their bridges remain unburned. We've had many a member bid us farewell, only to return days, weeks, or months down the road.
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    Quote Originally Posted by djellison View Post
    After recent events, I've decided to join Jon in leaving BAUT.

    Not only is the moderation increasingly disappointing - but the moderation team's response to genuine attempts to help improve are totally unacceptable.

    I used to recommend BAUT to people. No more. I don't know where I'll recommend now... nowhere, probably.
    Why not give your own board more time and attention, Doug? I'd have considered inviting you to a close-knit little group (of people who've interacted daily with each other since 2003), but you threatened to ban me once at your board around 2006 (a real over-reaction on your part; guess you only spared me because I'm a woman) and you did ban a friend of mine (male) for no real justifiable reason. So it seems odd to me to read of *your* being disgruntled with the moderation at BAUT; enough to leave it seems.

    Whatever. *shrugs*

    Mods, I have nothing further to say in this regard. If this gets me in a bit of trouble, I stand corrected and sincerely apologize beforehand.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buttercup View Post
    Mods, I have nothing further to say in this regard. If this gets me in a bit of trouble, I stand corrected and sincerely apologize beforehand.
    If you feel the need to add a statement like this to a post, it's probably best to just not click the submit button in the first place.

    Let's not have any more pot shots at people heading out the door, folks.
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    Ara Pacis,

    Jon did exactly the right thing. He decided that he should leave,
    and wanted to explain why, so he did. It doesn't help anyone else
    to just leave and not explain that the reason you left is that you
    are dissatisfied in some way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jeff Root View Post
    Ara Pacis,

    Jon did exactly the right thing. He decided that he should leave,
    and wanted to explain why, so he did. It doesn't help anyone else
    to just leave and not explain that the reason you left is that you
    are dissatisfied in some way.

    -- Jeff, in Minneapolis
    I disagree.
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    As do I. A private word to the mods or admins is one thing. A thread? That's quite another.
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    But it does offer an opportunity for other members to discuss and add their opinion, their weight to either side of the argument.

    Why is that a bad thing? What, people shouldn't be heard unless certain people agree with them? Is it not ok to express disappointment? To make a public goodbye? A number of us appear to be appreciative of Jon clarifying why he left rather than just signing off and never coming back, with no explanation why.

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