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From: J Alexandr Ledbury-Romanov
<alexandrdmitriromanov(a)gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Tue, November 30, 2010 11:27:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] should not web server logs (of requests) be
published?
I can guarantee that I myself, one of the three foundation-l list
moderators, am not an absent landlord. I read every post with care and
attention. Whilst there have been some posts on various threads of late than
have been to my mind sub-optimal, there have not, in my opinion, been any
egrarious personal attacks or trolling.
Moderation is not something we take lightly. Indeed, when we recently
reluctantly took the decision to ban one member, there were cries of
censorship.
There were some who cried censorship at the most Peter Damian's moderation, but
I for one cried out that there were too few people moderated. I don't why you
are equating moderation with banning. Moderation should be taken more lightly
than banning at least. You seem to be using them interchangeably above. There
are people on my ignore list who consistently and over a period of many years
send egrarious personal attacks to the list and troll the naive and the
flustered. And like everyone who contributes to this list, they also send other
messages to the list that are useful or contribute a perspective that would
otherwise be absent from the list. They should definitely not be banned, but it
is clear that trolling and personal attacks do not bring about moderation.
Birgitte SB