When I first read this I didn't think twice about it, because Gerard has often gone over the 30 message limit, so nothing new. But after reading later comments I see that he was disrespectful? I don't think so. I checked and indeed he didn't go over his limit in January. The only disrespectful thing I could find in his recent edits was his remark that he is not a collaborator because his cultural heritage assumes "collaborators" are "nazis", which is offensive in English. I would like to point out here that the word collaborator really does mean nazi in Dutch. It's one of many translation challenges, so there is even a Wikipedia article that spells it all out: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaboratie It's little things like this that make adding English-language Tech news to the Dutch Village pump a bit controversial btw.
On Sat, Feb 11, 2017 at 7:49 PM, Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello, everyone.
I share the opinion that moderation actions should be transparent. So:
I have now placed Gerard Meijssen on moderation. He has been posting very frequently to the list, far exceeding the requested "soft limit" of 30 posts per month, and has exhibited disrespectful discourse.
I encourage Gerard to revise his approach to communicating on this list. He will be unmoderated next month.
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