Topic: The effect of forums

[KISTEACHER]

Dear all

I have lurked for just under 2 years now and have in general found the information given useful and amusing.
I accept that many posts are humorous and i agree with the need for a admittedly teacher-centric forum.

My question is this

The moderation style has always been "light" and i tend to agree with that policy but that does seem to have meant that the quality of useful (to teachers) information has decreased during my time of reading...

I would highlight the following

1) The KIS thread.
2) The assumption college thread

i mean...

I am not such a greenhorn as to believe what ever i read on the Internet but i have seen a lot of youngsters come and go over the years and i do worry that they would have a VERY hard time telling the genuine information from the simply bogus or deeply biased...

I applaud the Mods moving Sara and her ilk to sour gripes...I guess that is the right place for her. I guess that the Hall of Shame is THE place to go for real information as that needs a few people to place the school there. But the fact that Sara invented so many aliases to back up her story seems to be a new level of forum abuse...or perhaps i am a newbie after all and simply haven't read enough forums! 

Not that i have any great solutions...

[retiredstillteaching]

Those who lurk for an extended period of time and then choose a certain time to finally make a post or two certainly are welcome to state their point of view regardless of whether the point of view is fair, biased or prejudiced.