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Message board > TO ZAILDA : MY MOST SINCERE APOLOGIES
TO ZAILDA : MY MOST SINCERE APOLOGIES
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jessicae
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TO ZAILDA : MY MOST SINCERE APOLOGIES
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"Thanks for the supporting!
I have
only one more question before finishing this topic: if other moderators
voted to remove the ws and left comments, why is this topic directly
pointing to me?
No need to answer, just to think about.
Have a great evening
Zailda Coirano "
Regarding this message , I felt really bad for directing this message directly to you, Zailda. You say in your message that there is " no need to answer", but I want to give you the answer. I pointed directly to you, because yours was the only name signing for the removal (there was no other comment apart from yours), and thus I thought that you were the only person who asked my sheet to be removed. That�s why I was asking for a fair explanation.
If I offended you some way, please accept my apologies. I didn�t want to disturb you or point at you in a mean way.
Jessicae
PS. I did not know where exactly to write this message, but I hope it gets to you anyway. I just wanted to publicly apologize for the inconvenience I might have caused to you :-(
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12 Jun 2009
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manonski (f)
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For your information, you can also private message a person if you want to ask him/her directly. Just click on the envelope under their flag.
Hope you have a good weekend! |
12 Jun 2009
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susiebelle
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It is so big of you to publicly apologize to Zailda.
I hope you can reupload your new editted worksheet so that we can all have a chance to see it. I am looking forward to it.
Best wishes***Susiebelle |
13 Jun 2009
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zailda
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No problem, I �m not offended.
I only want to make things clear, not for you but for everyone. Any person can report a ws, no need to be a moderator for doing it. The reporting box is available for everyone, every time a member access a ws. I didn �t report your ws, I only agreed it should be deleted and signed after the comment, as I always do. Sometimes the first moderator´s review appears before the comment of the member who reported a ws and it may look like the moderator reported the ws, but in fact the person who reported appears in the second place, under the first moderator �s comment.
Regarding to old rules, there are lots of new members signing every day and they don �t have access to them (and neither do I) so they read and report wss according to the rules we see before uploading a ws. The moderators have a "bible" to follow, written by Victor, showing all the rules with examples on what should and shouldn �t be deleted in the reporting page, so we just follow what he provided there for us.
I agree that moderators must be patient and polite and support all members who besides of having their wss deleted, also received impolite or rude comments by moderators, but I can assure that we neither create rules nor vote according to our willing. We have strict rules written (with pics and examples) to follow when reviewing a ws.
And I also have to point out the fact that a ws is deleted only if the majority vote to remove it, and that it �s not necessary to comment, so your ws might have been voted by dozens of other moderators who didn �t want to comment.
A moderator doesn �t have the isolated power to remove a ws, it �s necessary that others agree with it, following Victor �s rules we have in front of us all the time to refresh our memories - just in case.
It �s a hard and bothering work and I have to confess that I �m not a diligent moderator, I only go to the reporting page when I have some spare time (not very often) and it takes hours because we have to check the ws first, look the other ws on the member �s profile, follow the links people provide when reporting and consult the rules to see wheter it fits or not.
I admire some moderators who seem to know every single book written in English and all the sites because they help a lot, providing the original sites when a ws is reported as a copy. With dozens of them here I strongly recommend members who are thinking about smuggling copied material here to give up because they �ll certainly catch you in the act and you �ll have the dsiturbing matter of having a ws deleted, maybe some indigestive comments, and so on... And it won �t be good for your reputation as teachers.
I also recommend that if someone has old wss that don �t fit the new rules to update them, follow jessicae �s footsteps or they may be reported.
Finally, if you feel that a ws would be useless after adapting it to upload here, maybe it doesn �t belong here. I have more than 1.700 ws made by myself in my computer, some specially related to vocabulary and activities in my classes books, other with some translations that I feel won �t be useful here, so I use them only in class. I �m not anger for points and before every download I consult my conscience and ask myself if it will be useful here for great majority of the members. If the answer is "not" I keep it in my computer.
Have a great weekend.
Zailda Coirano
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13 Jun 2009
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