3 posts tagged “vox groups”

As of today, it appears I am administering the Chinese group on Vox. Sky, who founded the group, has departed from Vox and I am grateful for being left in charge. Thank you, Sky, for this and for instigating the group.
   For those of you who wish to post about China or the Chinese, from Chinese freedom to Chinese pride, please consider joining the group and begin sending your thoughts there.
   I’ve already begun improving a few things about the look and feel (e.g. adding a picture of Dr Sun Yat-sen as the group icon), and welcome others’ contributions.

A big thank-you to those early members who have joined the new New Zealand group on Vox: I really appreciate it. Now I am off to a very Kiwi thing: a barbecue. May post photographs later …

Interesting. I notice as of today I am not welcome on the old New Zealand—Aotearoa group on Vox and have been blocked from rejoining.
   All my posts have disappeared.
   I thought it was rather sad that neither moderator could come to me with their concerns, since they have both visited this blog, commented and we have had fairly civil discussions. I like Brenda’s intelligence and Ellipse’s passion for this country. We might not always agree (usually due to misinterpretations or clumsy wording on my part), but it’s always been civil. I private-messaged the following:

Please may I ask why I have been kicked off and blocked from the NZ group?

If you had a problem with my posting, then I would have been open to (a) toning it down, (b) post less, (c) post only positive NZ posts—but I thought it was rather untoward to be booted off just like that.

   I know I sometimes reveal the good and the bad, and maybe the latter upset them, I don’t know.
   In every internet group I have run, the member is usually given a chance to make amends and I thought that sort of fairness was what New Zealand stood for as a country, too.
   The only exception has been on groups where the posts are so clearly irrelevant to the subject that it looked like spam, and even then I indulge it for a time before taking action.
   Usually I just delete the offending posts, not the member.
   And if I have linked back to my own sites in my posts, I’m sorry: I am afraid can’t easily separate my job from my country.
   But even then, a small note to ask me to refrain from doing that would not have gone amiss.
   I felt I contributed a lot of good and helped keep the group up-to-date, and the moderators themselves have joined in discussions here. I really liked them.
   I know, I know: big picture. At the end of the day my posts get a good airing here among my neighbourhood and in other groups I am a member of.
   And if the New Zealand group didn’t appreciate telling me then I should just try to respect the moderators’ decision and move on.
   If it was accidental, then that’s fine, too, but as I have deleted members, I know there is an ‘Are you sure?’ stage. So I really annoyed someone.
   Therefore, as of today, there’s a new New Zealand group at aotearoa.groups.vox.com. I’d welcome you all to join (even the moderators of the old group), especially if you like reading about what goes on in this country. Vox is big enough for two.