Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

Lloyd -

When you began posting on this list about a month ago, your posts raised
some eyebrows. One of our co-moderators recalled that you had been banned
from the list some time ago - a step that is only taken in the most extreme
cases of constant breaking of list rules. We decided to give you the benefit
of the doubt. You were warned several times and finally put on moderation,
but you seemed to just barely be toeing the line, so despite repeated
requests by quite a few list members, we allowed most of your posts through,
even when we totally disagreed with their content. Even when you did post
messages that were off-topic for the list, we ended the entire thread,
rather than exercise our prerogative of "censoring" just your posts.
However this time, by personally attacking one of the co-moderators, you
have totally crossed the line. The moderators have unanimously decided to
disable your membership in B-Hebrew and ask that you kindly refrain from
signing up in the future.



Respectfully,



The B-Hebrew moderators


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "LM Barre" <l_barre AT yahoo.com>
To: "b-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 4:37 AM
Subject: [b-hebrew] George Athas is arbitrary--Call for list 
considerationand response


> The co-moderator, George Athas, is arbitrary is dictating what is 
> appropriate to this forum. If he doesn't like it, he closes the thread. 
> All of my posts have to do with the literature of the Hebrew Bible which 
> he himself has stated is the subject of this forum. I submit that Mr. 
> Athas is simply indulging in censorship based on his personal preferences 
> without regard to the subject matter of the b-Hebrew forum. Certainly the 
> authorship of the Pentateuch is a matter related to the study of the 
> literature of the Hebrew Bible. And yet he sees fit to close the thread, 
> and without explanation. Mr. Athas seems intent of preserving some sort of 
> self-styled status quo and does not support intellectual debate and 
> cooperative learning unless it fits his personal agenda. I do not hear 
> from the other moderators. Its is always Athas that jumps on my posts as 
> somehow "inappropriate." I appeal to the list members to withstand this 
> arbitrary censorship
> of one of the moderators. If I am in violation of some rule of b-Hebrew, 
> let that rule be cited and defended by all the moderators and the list 
> owner, who, by the way, is non-responsive to my questions. Athas wastes 
> your with his arbitrary and over restrictive, self-invented rules of 
> personal "protocol."
>
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> Lloyd Barré, PhD
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