David Gerard wrote:
David 'DJ' Hedley (spyders@btinternet.com) [050409 03:28]:
I agree with this request, his posts appear to be delibrately disruptive and are probably annoying a number of mailing list members. He has nothing good to contribute to this list.
"When in doubt, do nothing." The wikien-l admins are basically reluctant to actively administer the list membership, as that would quickly start to become work. Our main job is actually to filter the spam for posts from humans. We'll see if Irate calms down a little.
Keep in mind also that this is where we tell people to go if they get blocked, so that they have some avenue of appeal. Naturally, in such situations their posts may not be the most temperate, but I think we have to tolerate it as much as possible. If they're overly rude and blustering, just tell them, "Nobody's listening until you calm down and talk rationally."
On the other hand, if somebody's blocked due to a formal arbitration ban, their avenue of appeal is to Jimbo, and that can be handled by private email. Once they've had their due process, or if they've effectively been hard-banned some other way (Sollog comes to mind), we can afford to be a little less lenient about allowing them to post to the list.
--Michael Snow
Of course he's allowed to post, but Irate is posting a whole bunch of messages all regarding the same issue while accusing people without adding evidence.
- MacGyverMagic
On Apr 9, 2005 8:15 AM, Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
David 'DJ' Hedley (spyders@btinternet.com) [050409 03:28]:
I agree with this request, his posts appear to be delibrately disruptive and are probably annoying a number of mailing list members. He has nothing good to contribute to this list.
"When in doubt, do nothing." The wikien-l admins are basically reluctant to actively administer the list membership, as that would quickly start to become work. Our main job is actually to filter the spam for posts from humans. We'll see if Irate calms down a little.
Keep in mind also that this is where we tell people to go if they get blocked, so that they have some avenue of appeal. Naturally, in such situations their posts may not be the most temperate, but I think we have to tolerate it as much as possible. If they're overly rude and blustering, just tell them, "Nobody's listening until you calm down and talk rationally."
On the other hand, if somebody's blocked due to a formal arbitration ban, their avenue of appeal is to Jimbo, and that can be handled by private email. Once they've had their due process, or if they've effectively been hard-banned some other way (Sollog comes to mind), we can afford to be a little less lenient about allowing them to post to the list.
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