The Humour Club discussion

Should moderators be able to delete comments, members and even other moderators...or is that stepping all over freedom of speech?

I think people need help, since most people are not all that smart right?
I also think things run more efficiently when someone makes decisions, debating just takes way too much time, right?

Therefore, freedom of speech from people who are not all that smart and waste too much time is practically worthless, right?

Henceforth, moderators should be able to make all the decisions.

Makes sense to me.

Why did this debate stop at 2 comments? Or were there loads of comments, and the moderators deleted them?

At the risk of being deleted myself, I shall say this:

Moderators should behave moderately: immoderation from a moderator is an oxymoron* . Deleting is the harshest thing a moderator can do, therefore it is by definition immoderate. Therefore moderators shouldn't be able to delete anything.

* Latin for 'stupid cow'.

I'm lazy. So, as a moderator, I'm in favor of Chris 's plan.

The Humour Club seems to be a way station for humour writers. Introduce yourself, talk about your book, then disappear, so I greatly appreciate anyone who sticks around to chat.

I general, GR suffers from an excess of writers who just want to use it as a means of promoting their work. I mean, yeah, I want to promote my work. But I also get really tired of endless lists of writers "introducing" themselves by posting up boilerplate ad text and nothing else.

So we'll bribe Chris to stay around and join the madness and hope we can prove that we are such funny folks that people will want to buy our books without even being told to.

I entirely agree about the incorrigible self-promotion. In fact my new book on the subject, 'How Self-Promotion is Ruining Goodreads', is currently available on Kindle at $19.99.

My father asked me on the phone the other day how I was getting on with my Tinkle. For a moment I thought we were going to have a discussion about prostate glands, which I wouldn't have welcomed, but then I realised that he meant Kindle.

That's funny! See? Everyone should be reading Chris's book. Or maybe his Dad's.