Plop!
This is my written candidacy to become a Room Owner.
To be honest, I'm not entirely sure what I am going to write here. A waffle recipe?
I suppose the big thing is Why? The only true answer is: Because I care, and I believe I can make a difference.
I know most of the regulars of the room, sometimes personally. Same goes for ROs. I'm not easily offended by anything, anywhere. Anytime I do a mistake, I mobilize a huge chunk of my energy and my analysis capacities to understand the situation from multiple point of views and try to figure out if I can / how to fix it.
I am active in SOCVR, the Ministry, SOCVFinder, Charcoal HQ, MSO. My main activities are vtc'ing, flagging spam, and chatting. I often remind rules to regulars - "homework is a quality issue, not a scope one", "don't pile on", "don't moderate users" etc.
Over the year and a half that I have spent in the room, I have learned a huge lot. I now want my experience, knowledge of the room and its users, and kindness to not only help others as they already do but also to serve as example.
Eat your waffles with marmelade. Home-made. Or liquid caramel.
Ask everyone to Be Nice (calm, sensible, understanding, etc). If that does not work, pull out the stick obviously. Warnings, trashing, kicks and the like are tools available to us when a stupid problem needs a stupid solution. Note that if the topic debated does not concern the room or its activities, I would simply remind everyone to Be Nice and tell them to take another room.
I think the difficult point in these matters is to quantify and take into account the sensibilities of everyone involved. This is already close to impossible in real life, so it simply cannot be done on teh Interwebz unless everyone stays calm and understanding. Should I feel that a discussion cannot reach a positive, constructive outcome, I would suggest coordinated action is taken on the RO part to (preferably gently) close it. I would probably also involve myself in further discussion with the various protagonists, but that would require consent from the rest of the team.
I expect everyone to be responsible adults who can learn.
I'll just make a mental note to be on the lookout for future behaviour of that kind. This way we could discuss it between ROs and maybe figure out ways to chat a bit more on that subject with any user involved, in constructive ways.
No. What?
Was I? Wow, glad I did that =D