Casey Brown wrote:
On 9/2/07, michael west michawest@gmail.com wrote:
On 02/09/07, Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com wrote:
We have no right to know, I trust the users to moderate accordingly and they do a very good job at that. E-mail them privately if you want to know, do
*not* ask on the list, as weird as it may seem, but this is off-topic chat. :-)
Why is this OFF TOPIC?
I don't really care who is on the list or not, but a reasonable new thread should never be considered OT
I was a little teasing. I remember being told that talking about who was banned in the IRC channel #freenode was off-topic because the channel is for "freenode-help" and not "help about the channel #freenode". Either way, though, this is not something that should be discussed on the list, it should be discussed (if anywhere) privately with the list-mods.
on 9/2/07 7:35 PM, Ray Saintonge at saintonge@telus.net wrote:
It makes no sense to use being off-topic as an excuse for dismissing the subject from discussion. Anything generally relating to how the list is run is clearly on-topic, and certainly merits being discussed here.
I agree.
Naming specific people still needs to be avoided unless the result of the discussion says otherwise.
I am still puzzled by why the persons being moderated (censored) on this List need to be held so close to the vest; is there a stigma attached to it? There are some excellent voices on this List, and if some power somewhere decides one or more of them needs to be censored, I want to know who they are choosing to shelter me from.
Marc