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Florence Devouard wrote:
Luiz Augusto wrote:
Thankyou so much for this! Please keep the moderation enabled forever :-)
I do not share your enthousiasm.
First because I never thought collective punishment was a cool thing to do.
Moderation isn't a punishment; it's a tool for slowing down an overactive discussion so that posts can be made thoughtfully by many parties, instead of being dominated by quick back-and-forth between a few parties who happen to be online at the same time.
Second because the list moderators (who are not Brion) may not be so happy at the idea of moderating 30 emails per day.
Actually, I am one of the list mods. I wouldn't force someone else to do that for me!
I would be much happier with generously and frequently putting in moderation carefully selected editors (anyone who might be considered trolling a bit too much at some point, it might be many of us).
More generally useful would be a speed bump for particular _threads_. Moderating individual posters singles them out and both looks and feels like "punishment".
Further discussion would be more helpful if directed to actual implementation of automated speedbump-style moderation; if you have experience with this sort of configuration or patches for GNU Mailman, please contact me offlist or direct it to wikitech-l.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)