Whitworth Forum: The feedback thread.
May 24, 2009 | Contributed by Daniel Walters
Sometimes, people will have thoughts or ideas about how the forum should be run. We encourage this type of feedback. The forum, after all, is premised on openness. But we do not want it cluttering up other threads.
From now on, any feedback should go in this thread. Put feedback in other threads, and it, most likely will be deleted or moved.
Thank you. And you can look forward to the forum continuing to thrive next year.
-Daniel
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Topic thread, moved from the “Obituary Page” conversation.
Julia Lipscomb on May 23rd, 2009 11:35 am:
“There are still those I wish I had gotten to know better, but I realize that not everyone is like-able to everyone. Especially someone who can be as quietly disturbing as myself.”
Yes, that is my mantra! Whitworth Forum, you need a quotes page that you can frequently edit. Gab, set it up!
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Gabrielle M. Vaughn on May 23rd, 2009 3:26 pm
Can’t, Julia.
I have a friend who’s an excellent hacker. His name is Jack Fletcher.
He gained access to my Forum account, and hacked a vulnerability in the Wordpress admin coding.
Now Daniel Walters and Kyle Pflug think it’s my fault, and nothing I can do or say can convince them otherwise.
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Kyle Pflug on May 24th, 2009 12:23 am
Gabrielle,
I’ve never said anything accusing you of being a hacker or anything related. I don’t know what you are talking about, or to what vulnerability you are referring. Your administrative access was removed because it was unnecessary and overcomplicated security on my end.
And let’s keep the thread on-topic, please.
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Gabrielle Marie Vaughn on May 24th, 2009 12:28 am
Kyle, you sent me a quasi Cease and Desist letter on Facebook telling me to get my Free Expression off your Website, and Daniel has dropped hints here and everywhere that he believes me to be Publius.
I’m not, and I don’t appreciate the suggestion, and I’m no liar, or a lawyer, or a journalist for that matter.
Just a concerned citizen watching out for overly concerned Patriot Actors, thank you.
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Daniel Walters on May 24th, 2009 12:36 am
You are so not Publius. I know, with 99 percent certainty, who Publius was. You are not Publius. I have never believed you to be. Far from it. You don’t have the profile, the writing style, the inside knowledge, or the motive.
There are times we have disagreed with you or criticized your actions, but we have done so openly and honestly. You don’t need to go looking for hidden criticism.
I’m starting a forum feedback thread. From now on, any nitty-gritty stuff about how the forum is run will go in that that thread, as to not muddle up the threads where people are actually talking about interesting things.
I was just giving props on an alum’s writing, but whoops that did prompt an earlier discussion that I didn’t even see coming. Alright, streams of irrelevance go here, gotcha.
Here’s an interesting thing: Daniel has a crush on me and he’s totally hiding it by criticizing me on the Forum and being nice to me on Facebook.
Kyle has the opposite problem.
Kidding. Or am I?
I think we need to establish who the admins on this blog are allowed to be. Me, for instance. I’m no alumni. I didn’t graduate from Whitworth. And yet I was allowed to toy around with the site for the better part of a year.
I didn’t think I did any real damage to the blog’s reputation, but certain people disagree – which is certainly their right. I’m an ex-English lit major, currently undeclared, and plan on being a Theatre major when I make My Triumphant Return to the Whitworth scene – my sense of humor is a little ’special,’ to put it politely.
I’m planning on being back at Whitworth next fall semester, circumstances and finances willing, but who can predict the economy. Michael Crichton, maybe, but that’s about it.
In the meantime: Who does the Forum want to be in control? Just Kyle and Daniel? Kelly? Grady? Others?
Not to drag things into the political arena once again, but, well, oops.
Too late now!
Well, ideally, I’d like to be able to pass the Forum reins over to some young Whitworth student, but I haven’t found the right person yet.
Define who ‘the right person’ is, Daniel.
Someone with the same political beliefs as you? The same religious beliefs? The same conception of right and wrong as Kyle? The same definition of morality as me (that would be terrifying)?
My guess is Daniel is looking for someone who is motivated enough to keep this going and has a similar quasi-professional-journalism vision for it. It seems pretty obvious that he’s trying to find someone who’s motivated but doesn’t just want to turn the Forum into their own personal soapbox. I don’t see how ethics, religious beliefs, or morality have much to do with it. (That is, assuming that I have Daniel’s intentions marked correctly.)
There’s a number of things I’m looking for.
The first is passion. I need somebody willing to put in time, energy, and willpower into making the forum succeed.
But I’m also looking for someone who shares my vision for the forum. That requires a person, who, among other things: Is strongly against censoring ideas, wants to see Whitworth discussing issues as a campus in an in-depth way, doesn’t take personal attacks personally, encourages consistent, clean, on-topic posting, and is committed to presenting the forum with a semi-professional face.
I have much higher standards for an administrator than a regular poster or commenter. An administrator could delete previous posts, edit previous posts, and set the forum’s reputation. So it has to be someone I can really say I trust.
You fulfill a lot of those requirements, Gabrielle, but it’s pretty clear we have some substantial disagreements on the direction of the forum. I have nightmarish visions of the site bedazzled in hearts and emoticons. You think they’re an invaluable aspect of expression.
That’s just one example.
I have nightmarish visions, period.
I’m no cat emote. Hell, I’m no cat.
I’m a girl. Just a girl, a journalistic citizen girl with her pencils in holsters and a pad of fresh paper on the loose.
This site isn’t my soapbox. It’s a forum. For DISCUSSION. Of ideas. Conflict. Happenings. Instances. College. Whitworth.
[Insert sarcasm-laden sigh here]
Seeing as no one has deigned to reply:
I don’t appreciate implied accusations of turning this site into my soapbox, among other things.
I started a fan page for this site on Facebook. I started a Twitter for it, not for the express purpose of being unprofessional – not for that purpose at all! – but just because no one seems to know about it.
Those who do know seem to have some sort of weird idea that controversial ideas like being nice to people are being talked about.
Controversy? Disrupting community? Gasp! Awe! Shock! Horror! Disapproval! The Forum would never give haven to such young and foolish ideals of discussion –
Oh. Wait.
I’m not sure if this is the correct place to ask this but I was wondering what happened to the recent post “An Incorrect Assumption.” It was a good post and I was somewhat confused for the reasoning behind its disappearance.
I have no idea, Dave-o.
I think it’s probably a technical problem. I’ll try to ask Kyle Pflug if I see him.