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To: Bill who wrote (10379)	8/8/2006 9:32:13 AM
From: Bill	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 14758

Poor X faces her first real dilemma as moderator of the Experiment political thread. With a lengthy and strict set of rules, the structure is in place to ban anybody who even plays at the edges of sharp political discourse. She quickly banned a couple of token left wack jobs. That was easy, for she is not friends with either of them. Then came a couple of good non-liberals (prolife and laz), followed by longnshort who was really trying his best to stay within the rules. Now comes the dilemma. A liberal friend of hers has crossed over the line by ridiculing another poster with insinuations about his sexuality. But X naturally doesn't want to ban her buddies. What will she do? Will she stick to principle and ban him? Will she re-interpret her friend's post and try to rationalize how it's within her rules? Or will she just ignore it? Let's see what X is made of...