Both last night and this morning, tsull expressed a great deal of frustration that not enough members were participating in the Bobby Smith of the Spinners RIP thread. This afternoon mellowQ agreed with tsull. But alas, skooldem countered this evening that members are not obligated to post in such threads. I think this is an issue that needs to be discussed on a forum wide platform.
Here is tsull’s post from this morning:
- Today, 10:32 AM#12
tsull1
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The lack of respect for Bobbie is stunning: 10 posts here, only seven different posters, no press coverage in The Detroit Free Press, hardly any online. Tons of posts on various subjects on this and the Motown board and people have a right to post what they want, but re-hashing Diana Ross for the millionth time while a legend passes? C'mon.
This got me to thinking. Perhaps it’s time for the forum to consider adopting some new policies and procedures when it comes to RIP threads.
Perhaps we can start a separate sub-forum devoted to RIP threads? Of course this could lead to segregation of these threads and as a result some members may end not being aware of the passing of one our music legends.
Another suggestion is that when someone passes away that moderators lock all other threads except other RIP threads here at SDF for a set period of time so that we as members can reflect on the passing of the person in question and pay our respects. If this is an avenue worth pursuing, then it needs to be determined how long all other threads should be locked. 24 hours? 48 hours? A week?
Also, perhaps a mechanism can be developed to monitor how frequently members contribute to RIP threads. It shouldn’t be expected that everyone must have something to add to every RIP thread [[we may not know who the artist was, or we may be taking a break from the forum to attend to matters in other parts of our life). But maybe a certain rate of participation should be expected over a six month period of time? And if this rate is not met, then the member should receive a warning from the moderator to increase their level of participation in RIP threads [[so long as it’s respectful of the dead and their families, friends and fans). If after another 6 months the member is still not participating at a satisfactory rate, then perhaps the offending member should be asked to leave or be banned from SDF.
Tsull has raised some important issues and it would do this forum and its membership well to set up some guidance with regards to RIP threads so that those who have sadly passed will receive sufficient recognition and respect so as not to hurt the family members, friends and fans who come here to SDF expecting the members to pay due homage and respect on the lifetime contributions of their dearly departed loved ones.
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