So, the caucus label isn’t really about who is a member of the denomination as much as who the poster of the thread wants to have on it?
I see.
Perhaps that should be specified more clearly in the guidelines.
In the meantime, I guess that next time I won’t bother with the courtesy of pinging the poster of the thread and will just post the dupe in another forum and deal with the fall out when it happens.
In the meantime, I guess that next time I won’t bother with the courtesy of pinging the poster of the thread and will just post the dupe in another forum and deal with the fall out when it happens.Metmom, anything in the future that you want to take that is on Catholic Caucus of mine and place on News/Activism, please go ahead and take it (no need to ping with a comment). The only reason this one was upsetting to me that it was taken quite quickly, is because I'm personally involved with what's taking place at UIllinois, and had the information in my e-mail for almost a week before it broke, but out of respect for the parties involved, my husband didn't "break" the story himself.
From the number of deleted items, I have a feeling you posted more to that thread than simply a single courtesy ping to say you were creating another thread.
But since the posts are deleted, I don’t know what they all said.
The guidelines and the Religion Moderator’s explanation was clear. The rules are non-caucus members stay out of the caucus. The Moderator doesn’t read every comment of every caucus thread and cross-reference posters to some database of church attendance to determine whether they are caucus members.
Enforcement therefore is on the exception basis — the RM is called if someone in a thread finds something they think is disruptive. Then RM comes in and if the allegedly disruptive poster isn’t in the caucus, the decision to delete is pretty easy, since it’s a violation of the caucus rules.
Since the rules allow “invited guests”, if the RM sees a person they know isn’t in the caucus posting in a caucus thread, but the other participants are answering that poster in a way that seems accepting, it is like the person was invited.
The RM explicitly gave ways they determine a non-caucus identification. THere is no indication that caucus members are lightly thrown out of caucus threads simply because of a disagreement of the thread poster.
An exact duplicate posted within four hours will probably be pulled. So either wait at least that long or find a similar article if you want to post it right away.
That was my thought when I read the mods explanation ...if they don't mind I leave them ...that seems a violation of the rules IMHO