Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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What would be more acceptable rules ? I am open to suggestions.
Lastly, blaming the moderator for slow contributions is like blaming the weatherman for hurricanes .
If you have suggestions ,please let me know. Otherwise ,feel free to stay away from this blog .
Notice that the fact I publish your post is proof that I am neutral.
I think he/she means that when you could just post on the blog and see your post instanly you could have a dialogue with other posters. Now you can post and maybe a few days later it will appear. When this changed the blog started to really die down.
From the above description, instant publication is not offered or implied. The root purpose of this blog is to "expose the waste, wrongdoing and any kind of injustice against employees and taxpayers by LLNS/DOE/NNSA." The value of the blog moderator (Scooby) is random, off topic, rude, or threatening posts can be filtered out.
There are some LLNS employees (mostly non-worker bees) that would like to see this blog go away. Prior to blog moderation and filtering, those folks would belittle, discredit, and insult others that were raising lab concerns in good faith, in the attempt to squelch the topic.
Employees that have been around for a while understand that lab concerns and solutions to those concerns are rarely measured in hours, days, or even weeks. Lets please be a little more appreciative of the blog moderators efforts and his retiree time.
How about something like free Fridays, where moderation is off and the posts can only stay for only that day? If something actually interesting is posted you can let it stay, else everything is gone the next day.
October 21, 2018 at 10:51 AM
I agree. Keep up the good work Julian and don't let the negative naysayers get you down. I personally appreciate your efforts.
And along with those attacks comes a plea for a moderation-free interval so that posters can launch attacks and innuendo at each other unabated. Ah, a return to the good old days where a handful of contributors turned this blog into a war zone. No information relevant to working at the labs, just flame after flame.
To answer October 21, 2018 at 5:29 PM - why do Scooby ( and I ) care about insults and denigrating comments? Because it's off-topic, noise, and juvenile. Scooby wants a blog that talks about the lab's, not a competition for who can make the most snarky comment.
He had rules of conduct posted, just like Facebook and so many other sites have their rules. You violate Facebook rules and they put the hammer down on you. I'd like to see how far you'd get accusing their moderators in the manner you have Scooby. He's a lot more lenient than they are in that way.
I'm grateful for the endless hours Scooby has poured into this blog. It warrants a "thank you" at least - even if you do have some issue with him.
I am not sure what you mean, does that mean by smearing Kavenaugh, or Kavenaugh smearing others. I not trying to be a troll or anything, it is just when someone says you are "Kavenaugh your way" I want to figure out the meaning.
One senator outed ( at the last moment ) a woman who had requested privacy, violating her trust. Another senator staged a scene claiming he was some kind of hero by releasing classified documents, only those documents had already been cleared for release. And there were the professional protesters shrieking from gallery. In the end the accusation had no supporting evidence or witnesses.
All very much like how some here treat Scooby.
* This is a private blog, not some entity controlled by the government.
* There is no censorship of opinion, only enforcement of a civil level of conversation. Civility according to the age-old definition.
* Including false accusations ( stealth deletions ) has nothing to do with political bend. Whether you're a left-wing troll or a right-wing troll you're still a troll.
It continues to amaze me that someone is stupid enough to think that they can make such blatant lie and get away with it. Hello, former blog moderator here. I helped set up the current schema for reviewing submitted comments. How every submission is registered on a private queue. How a rejected entry still exists in the logs, making it trivial to inspect those logs. Don't you think I didn't check those logs long ago for just what you accused Scooby of doing? The logs don't lie.
October 24, 2018 at 10:15 PM
Gee. And here I thought that to "Kavenaugh ones way into something" meant to lie under oath to gain a trusted position.
October 26, 2018 at 12:25 PM
This is what I thought. He lied under oath, looked creepy, they would not let the literally hundreds of witness come out to show that hid did it, they only considered the one person's claim not all the other credible women, they simply ignored that he is a raging alcoholic.
The lying under oath was obvious with his comments on the year book. How can any one get away with this after a very credible accusation. There is no doubt many many more. Don't give the whole due process thing, this was a job interview not a trial. He was never going to jail.
October 26, 2018 at 12:25 PM
You were wrong. You have lots of company.