1) How will the moderation be set up? If there are several moderators, will the first to approve or reject a post make the decision, or will moderation decisions have to made in consensus, or by majority rule? 2) As for specific moderators, I would object especially to making Larry Sanger a moderator (who has proposed himself). Larry has repeatedly shown himself to resort to insults and ad hominem arguments whenever people start to disagree with him. During his tenure as Wikipedia's editor, he has driven away quite a few contributors because of his inability to accomodate opposing views. His paranoia about "subversion" of NPOV is proof that his mindset hasn't changed. I'm sure I've made his personal "black list" by now, the top position of which is currently occupied by Cunctator. Sanger is exactly the kind of person who can destroy a project like Wikipedia if given too much power and control. I would, for obvious reasons, also object to Julie, but she isn't likely to do it anyway. Other than that, I can live with most nominations. I don't trust Ed quite enough to have him the only moderator of a list, but if he was part of a group, that would probably be OK. Regards, Erik

Erik Moeller wrote: By the nature of the software, the only practical way to do it would be to have the moderators log into the website and process things. If a moderator felt that a post was borderline, he or she could just leave it in the queue, rather than accepting or rejecting, but if the moderator does reject or accept, then that's that -- as far as the software is concerned, anyway. It's fun and cute to imagine a process whereby 2 moderators have to blackball a post before it's really rejected, or similar, but realistically, it'd be too much work to program that, when simple trust and kindness are so much more powerful. Probably what should happen is that all rejected posts receive a message saying that if they want to appeal, to forward the post to an alias, which goes to all the moderators plus me. Also good would be for all rejected posts to go separately to all the moderators plus me, thus inducing some peer pressure for moderators to do the right thing. --Jimbo

Erik Moeller wrote: It seems likely that we'll soon some to a consensus that doesn't perfectly address everyone's concerns, but that attempts to address almost all of them. --Jimbo