It's better to have moderation. Some folks just fill the list up with negative useless stuff.
Fred
-----Original Message----- From: Marc Riddell [mailto:michaeldavid86@comcast.net] Sent: Monday, September 3, 2007 05:11 PM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Who's moderated?
On 03/09/07, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
As for it being small, I'm not suprised. Only very active Wikipedians would be interested in the mailing list, and not all of them. In September 2006 (the last month I can find stats for - do we have stats anywhere from after the toolserver failed?), 4330 accounts made more than 100 edits. Accounting for growth, etc., I'd say about 10% of very active Wikipedians are on this mailing list. Seems about right.
on 9/3/07 11:21 AM, David Gerard at dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
As an official place for discussion of en:wp matters, this list tends to select from the most interested.
As one of the last points of appeal for the banned (hence its position as official sewer of en:wp - a function that makes the place cleaner and nicer, but you probably don't want to fish through the output), it tends to select from the least suited.
This creates an interesting list atmosphere requiring more work moderating than any sensible list should ...
Everyone,
Since I was the one who started this thread, allow me to clarify my thoughts about the subject.
This is not a direct response to, nor especially directed at, you David. But, since you are a Moderator on this List, I thought this would be a good a place as any to speak it.
During a private email discussion with a person I have come to respect on this List, and do look forward to their contributions, they made a statement; and then, as an aside, said that they could never make the remark in a post to the List because they were on moderation. I was stunned! Having read and enjoyed all of their past posts, I could not for the life of me imagine why they would be on moderation. Then I wondered who else was being similarly moderated - and why. That is the background of my post.
What I would like to see:
- A List of persons in this Community who are currently on Moderation; and
the reason they are being moderated.
- Any person on moderation who chooses not to be identified on this list,
has the right not to be.
- That only blatant spam, and unintelligible bullshit be moderated from the
List. I can only imagine the amount and type of crap you must weed through. But, please, allow me the right to decide what I do and do not want to read.
That's it folks,
Marc
-- If you don't ask the questions - you have no excuse for not knowing the answers.
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