On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Thomas Morton <morton.thomas(a)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/Ca…
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