On 12/12/02 7:48 PM, "Tom Parmenter" tompar@world.std.com wrote:
The Cunctator, who does not like the idea of list moderation, has just demonstrated what a good moderator would do. If every discussion like this (true meaning of anti-semitism) was tagged with a dry comment, "This discussion belongs on a talk page or meta", pretty soon we would see less and less of this sort of thing and the moderator would have improved the content of the list and the content of Wikipedia by her action, all without stepping on anyone's rights or stifling any discussion.
Maybe we should transform The Cunctator into The Moderator.
That's my point. It's possible to moderate without preventing people from posting, or by making people moderators by special appointment. It's everyone's responsibility.
But we're really just stuck with a scaling problem, and I don't think censoring posts is the right way to deal with the problem for Wikipedia.