Heard back from the old NZ group
Yay, I heard from Ellipse, one of the mods on the old New Zealand group, just now.
It seems I was removed and banned because of what they felt was the irrelevance of my posts, although I am having a hard time figuring out which ones. I did tell her I was careful but it may be the case of a differing judgement call.
For example, I might have sent my Toyota Corolla post there and that could have been one. Some might think it irrelevant to New Zealand; I would have seen it as relevant given the cars were the number-one seller in New Zealand for over a decade and many Kiwis grew up with them. Everyone in New Zealand has a Corolla story.
I don’t know if that’s the one but it is an example. I have asked her to take a peek if she wishes to, so maybe we can find out what caused this. We may as well reach an understanding on what crosses the line.
She thought I had been cautioned before, which is why she took a sudden action, but now realizes I hadn’t been, and effectively apologized and reinstated me.
She agrees that not getting a warning is ‘not cool’ and was disappointed in herself for making the call, which we can put down to human error.
Gosh—I’ve had over a year of posts I sent there that have all disappeared, which is a bit of a shame to those browsing the group now and wanting to get a full record, but mistakes happen.
I think it was good of her to reply and admit to an error. I told you I liked her and I am glad my first impressions of her weren’t wrong—though I fully own the earlier emotions I had when I was first banned. I was calm, just not ecstatic.
Oh well, we now have two NZ groups with different memberships and I still stand by my earlier comment that Vox is big enough for both. What I might do is send the unambiguously Kiwi ones there out of respect to Ellipse and the rest where the NZ connection is perhaps more tenuous (e.g. discussions of policy or maybe even Lucire) to the new group.
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Well, the good consequence is that there are now two groups with different memberships. I liked sending trivial images like that of the Mini and the ducks, but I won’t send them to the old group in case that was one that crossed the line. My view is “slice of life” shots like that count as being relevant if they were shot here; maybe Ellipse saw it differently.
Wyldreams, I know how you feel, and I sure can’t blame you! I can’t pretend I won’t change my posting habits to the old group—like the Avidiva post yesterday. I would have sent that to the old group prior to yesterday; now I am worried it would be slammed for irrelevance even though the act took place in New Zealand with a New Zealand musical act. (Yes, but does it talk about New Zealand?)
Zak, I guess when we are online, sometimes we do have the equivalent of an itchy trigger finger. The way Ellipse phrased her email to me, she didn’t sound like a drama queen and her comments here have always been quite nice. But I do now like the option of which NZ group I send things to.
I believe that the old group’s description is inaccurate if there is this line somewhere that we are not that clear about crossing. I think it says something quite open about it being for Kiwis here and overseas—well, I might be an immigrant but I sure as heck count, and have done since citizenship in 1980! Everything I ever sent there had a connection to New Zealand, whether it was the downloadable Lucire supplement (it’s published here and it’s a New Zealand-HQed title) or a picture of the Mini Cooper (slice of life Down Under). I sense that they only—and I welcome being corrected—want things that directly discuss the country, while I see the new group as being far broader.