Re: Vehicle FAQs
Also, it has started to become somewhat obvious that despite greenhybrids goal to educate, it seems that it has also become a kind of soapbox for people to advocate their particular views. This is of course, by no means surprising or harmful, but when too much is said and done in favor of a persuasion of thought rather than an unbiased look, the site ceases to serve the function it and the real milage database serves, and instead becomes a glorified blog. If nothing else, this keeps the site from being the other end of the pendulum from where most of the media seems to be, not to mention keeps greenhybrids reputation as a source of information intact.
While it's understandable that the website has become near and dear to many people, Jason, especially yourself, you should also realize that the community that calls this place a home may not always share your particular views, or those of the moderators; perhaps a good idea is to have a staff of moderators who come from many degrees and schools of thought rather than all from the same one to ensure that the boards remains unbiased. Especially in the vehicle forums.
In addition to the above, I suggest that all discussions in the vehicular subforums of a political or religious nature be prohibited. I'm a member of many very active forums, and all of them have similar rules, which keeps the site running. There's a forum for political and religious discussion, and depending on what you desire, you may allow such discussions in the general forum. Doing this helps keep the boards bias free, the lines of communication open, the discussion on topic, and keeps from a small group of people who share the same views to try to force them upon the rest of the community. Another duty of the subforum moderators that I've suggested would be to keep such discussions out of their subforums and to keep the discussions away from such a nature.
I've seen boards like this one, a very good site and with lots of good people fall apart because of petty and stupid problems. What I've mentioned has actually worked in keeping that happen, and failure to take any action almost always results in the site folding or splintering down the road. I'd prefer it if Greenhybrid stays intact and informational.
This isn't a hypothetical. Already people are becoming nebulous about this site. I've seen people say that they probably won't post again because of the political climate of a hybrid forum is too extreme for their tastes, and others ask for information about a hybrid only to be told to buy a bike. These are pretty clear signs that there's a problem, and things like this never get better, they only get worse.
Last edited by Pravus Prime : 09-08-2005 at 11:26 PM.
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