On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Thomas Morton <morton.thomas@googlemail.com
wrote:
There was a 30 post per person monthly "soft" limit on foundation-l.
My apologies; I was unaware of this soft limit.
Happy to abide by it :) and I hope others will too! And, so, this should be my last post for this month. FWIW I entirely agree that less vocal posters may be put off by large volume of email by the same individuals.
Is there an easy way to keep an eye on our own volume of mail?
I think people who think have got the point, but we still have to "whack
the mole" at trolls and endless griefers.
I'm also annoyed at being characterised in this way by someone who has maintained only the barest level of civility in their postings. So I am not inclined to "troll" or "grief" further anyway.
My apologies to everyone else.
Likewise, my apologies to anyone who resented the long dialogue between myself and David Levy here on this list. David and I have continued to discuss this in private mail.
For those interested, there is a current request for arbitration on English Wikipedia related to the board resolution on controversial content, which contains some further views and discussion. I have summarised my view that our illustrations, just like our texts, should follow good practice established in reliable sources here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Cas...
As John Vandenberg pointed out in his comment at the arbitration request, the board's resolution on biographies of living people led to several community RfCs on en:WP last year. Wikipedia may need a similar community process to discuss the implications of the board resolution on controversial content, and the principle of least astonishment.
Andreas