On Monday 11 November 2002 02:39 pm, Larry wrote:

The Status Quo, Plus Clearer Principles Option: We need to debate and settle upon some clear principles about when sanctions are to be meted out by our sysops.

I vote for this option

The Moderators Option: Rather than having giving power to all sysops who ask for it, we should give the power to moderators on a rotating basis. They act explicitly as judges, adjudicating disputes and building up a history of cases that allows us to find-tune and rationally apply the rules that eliminate from our presence trolls and others who simply refuse to play by the rules. They are responsible for judging by the rules fairly, and as a result the office of moderator is rewarded with moral authority.

Bad idea. We already have the problem of not having enough sysops to watch the shop and perform maintenance. I would, however, support the /addition/ of moderators to the current set-up. The moderators would decide the borderline cases, content wars, blocking of POV users etc.

You still haven't responded to my previous post on this issue.

See http://www.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikipedia-l/2002-November/007226.html

--Daniel Mayer (aka mav)