On 8/29/07, Monahon, Peter B. Peter.Monahon@uspto.gov wrote:
Power corrupts. Absolute power (to ban) corrupts absolutely.
We're talking about moderating a mailing list here. Let's cut the hyperbole.
Personally I struggle to maintain interest in this list, with its obsessive interest in issues tangential to Wikipedia. As Wikipedia has grown, so has traffic on the list. I'd really like to see it split somehow:
How about this: wikien-l-content: Discussion of the content of specific pages, policies that affect content etc wikien-l-personalities: Discussion of people, who should be banned or unbanned, whether X is a troll or not wikien-l-general: Everything else
I'll happily subscribe to wikien-l-content and give the other two a miss.
Steve (listmod)