Opinions on Roscoe White story?

[Lauren Johnson]

In the fourth post of this thread, the currently absent Jan Klimkowski said this to the new member who started this thread:

Edwin - welcome to DPF.

Please be aware that the Deep Politics Forum and the research community as a whole has recently been subject to enemy manoeuvres.

Infiltrators will be exposed and banished.

Truth seekers will be welcomed and embraced.

Folks, welcome to Groundhog Day --OK, it's about a movie where Bill Murray re-lives the same day over and over until he gets it right.

When it comes to the JFK Forum any new poster is ALWAYS under suspicion. ALWAYS. Jan explained it very well.

Make the JFK Forum a members only subject to approval by ... well, who knows. You just can't keep letting every new person with some thought or other to start in posting. I favor an automatic stance of mistrust toward new members to the JFK Forum. Trust should be earned in some way. There just has to be a better way than the method we have now.

I don't know what can be done. Aside from the few who formed this Forum [or those who were known from the EF or other established forums - or their books] all were newbees here once. All one can do is give 'em enough rope and see if they hang themselves or make a contribution. Some just have a very strange starting style; some have an agenda that doesn't fit with the Forum. It takes a little time to tell. This new member certainly isn't trying to win a popularity contest - but blames everyone else, rather than trying to civilly fit in. IMHO. Time will tell.

I awakened in the middle of the night thinking about this. I think new members who wish to post in the JFK Forum be placed on automatic moderation. The new poster is assigned to someone who is a long time expert in JFK studies. His posts are critiqued for tone, style, frequency, responses to criticism, as well as content. New posters would be assigned in a positive spirit of creating good contributing members for years. My suggestion is to stay away from a moderation by committee because it is so unwieldy. The title for the person responsible for the moderation process could be New Member Sponsor.

New members wanting to post in the JFK Forum tend to come in wanting to demonstrate how much they know then saying something like, "What does everybody else think." This of course gives a bad first impression. New members on moderation should demonstrate they are competent, not disinformation agents and reasonably agreeable.

Who would do this? Well, I am proposing that our current moderators certainly can do this and that they can assign this task to other trusted and competent members at times, such as yourself, Peter.

Easy peasy.