SJ Klein wrote:
People are hesitant to moderate because noone wants to censor discussion or prevent people from expressing valid perspectives. This is good. Let's increase /mediation/,
I'm not sure what you mean by mediation. I'm not a member of wikien-l, but foundation-l sure has changed. In 2004 it saw 200-300 messages per month. In 2005-2006 this was 500 messages, a high-volume list but still interesting. Now in October and November 2007, we've seen 1000 messages per month. The technology scales, but people do not. It's certainly possible to filter out a handful of people who comment on everything, but then it's no longer the same list. One could just as well abandon the list.
Or we could introduce a limit of 20 messages per person and month. That would force everyone to pick their fights (which is always a good advice, but rarely enforced), instead of allowing the list to degrade into a chat forum. Being able to post 20 messages a month is not censorship.
Only the following dozen would have been restricted in November:
Posts 97 From: "Thomas Dalton" -- 3 posts per day 60 From: "Brian McNeil" -- 2 posts per day 55 From: "David Gerard" 51 From: Anthony 47 From: GerardM 36 From: Ray Saintonge 34 From: geni 26 From: Florence Devouard 23 From: "Robert Rohde" 23 From: Marc Riddell 21 From: Dan Rosenthal 21 From: "Andrew Gray"
These were close:
20 From: Mike Godwin 19 From: "Casey Brown" 17 From: Robert Horning 17 From: "Michael Bimmler" 17 From: "Erik Moeller" 13 From: "Brianna Laugher" 13 From: "Andrew Whitworth" 11 From: Waerth 11 From: Johannes Rohr 11 From: Christiano Moreschi 10 From: Brian 10 From: Aphaia