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thanks, Austin. I hope I can start reading this list again now.

Lodewijk

2008/3/2, Austin Hair <adhair op gmail.com>:
>
> Seriously, guys.
>
> We're all pretty easy-going; for years we shied away from moderating
> people on Foundation-l, only falling back to that as a last resort.
> Since this is the list you take Foundation matters to, in the past
> people have exercised a certain level of self-control, lest they not
> be taken seriously.  I won't say that there weren't occasional flames,
> but it was more or less self-moderating.
>
> Now, however, it's gotten out of control.  Board members and WMF
> executives alike have told me that they don't give much heed to
> Foundation-l; Mike Godwin unsubscribed for a time, and in a post to
> this list Jimmy described it as a "sewer."  Something has to change.
>
> If people want their input to make a difference, they'll have to
> maintain a forum that people actually pay attention to.
>
> Michael and I pledged a couple of months ago to maintain closer
> supervision of Foundation-l, and in that time quite a few people have
> seen themselves moderated.  Lately, we've taken the extraordinary step
> of killing entire threads; I just killed once twice over, not without
> a few angry e-mails.
>
> Please, please do your best to be civil and on-topic.  Everyone shares
> the goal of an open forum for reasonable discussion of Foundation
> matters, but this isn't helped by posts attacking Egyptians as hating
> gays and joking about U.S. genocide of American Indians.
>
> tl;dr be nice or b&.
>
> Austin
>
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