aa Spoken Here Community Group
Fellowship Where you can share your thoughts, feelings, stories and get support to gain and continue sobriety.
To all members,
The admin team would like to apologise for any part that they played in the events on the group on Saturday 18th July. Several posts were made which gave concern to a member of the admin team. In the heat of the moment actions were taken taken in haste where things may have been handled better if a little more time and reflection had been taken. This resulted in several posts being deleted and a member of the group being temporarily banned. Some of this may have been able to be avoided or at least done more smoothly if the procedures for deletion of posts and banning of members were more defined and more transparent to the members of the group.
In order to stop events such as these the admin team will shortly be posting a thread relating to guidelines for the group and the procedures for deletion of posts and banning of members. The admin team do not wish to be controllers of the group and with that in mind the group will be as self regulating as possible. Action by the admin team will cover only conduct relating to unacceptable behaviour such as swearing, personal attacks on members or their posts etc.
Hopefully in this way we will have a group which runs more smoothly and is a friendly and respectful place to be.
Thanks for reading.
The Admin Team (nickyj, gailly, gr8ful)
The admin team would like to apologise for any part that they played in the events on the group on Saturday 18th July. Several posts were made which gave concern to a member of the admin team. In the heat of the moment actions were taken taken in haste where things may have been handled better if a little more time and reflection had been taken. This resulted in several posts being deleted and a member of the group being temporarily banned. Some of this may have been able to be avoided or at least done more smoothly if the procedures for deletion of posts and banning of members were more defined and more transparent to the members of the group.
In order to stop events such as these the admin team will shortly be posting a thread relating to guidelines for the group and the procedures for deletion of posts and banning of members. The admin team do not wish to be controllers of the group and with that in mind the group will be as self regulating as possible. Action by the admin team will cover only conduct relating to unacceptable behaviour such as swearing, personal attacks on members or their posts etc.
Hopefully in this way we will have a group which runs more smoothly and is a friendly and respectful place to be.
Thanks for reading.
The Admin Team (nickyj, gailly, gr8ful)
I've seen boards resort to adult tattle telling before as well.
For example "I was completely f**ked" would be ok whereas "You are a f**king idiot" would not.
Hope your day is well.
Peace
From either side of that kind of thing, I hope everyone will be able to tell the difference between being personally attacked and simply having something challenged.
We each have a right to be heard, and we each have a right to not listen in return. However, none of us has any right to have our spoken (or in this case, typed) words automatically remain unchallenged.
This group hummed along quite nicely for the last year or so but things have changed and the behaviour exhibited on this group in recent times would not be found in any AA meeting I know of.
AA itself will not let a group in this format and website be an official AA group and for good reason.
Whats others opinion of the subject?