[Foundation-l] Board statement of responsibility

Dan Rosenthal swatjester at gmail.com
Sat May 17 16:59:35 UTC 2008


Anthony has said he didn't feel free to discuss the draft fully due to  
threat of moderation. GerardM challenged him on that. I'm providing  
supporting evidence. It's still tangentially on topic for the thread.

-Dan
On May 17, 2008, at 12:22 PM, effe iets anders wrote:

> please have moderation discussions elsewhere, this thread is about the
> draft florence sent us.
>
> 2008/5/17 Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com>:
>> Because it's the moderators who moderated me for weeks at a time, not
>> for being uncivil, but because everybody elses conversations were
>> going too quickly. So they moderated me. That kind of heavy handed,
>> poor moderating, is why we don't feel that we can post here. Because
>> we get threatened with moderation (or actually moderated) for
>> completely civil comments.
>>
>> -Dan
>> On May 17, 2008, at 10:13 AM, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
>>
>>> Hoi,
>>> Why is it always others that are the key to a solution ?
>>> Thanks,
>>>    GerardM
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Brian McNeil
>>>> <brian.mcneil at wikinewsie.org> wrote:
>>>>> It is not Gerard's loss. It is everyone's loss that you feel
>>>>> incapable of
>>>>> civilly and articulately expressing yourself here.
>>>>>
>>>> Then maybe the moderators should fix that situation, so that I *do*
>>>> feel capable of civilly and articulately expressing myself here.
>>>> Because it's not that I don't feel capable of civilly and
>>>> articulately
>>>> expressing myself, it's that I don't feel capable of doing it in  
>>>> this
>>>> forum.
>>>>
>>>> If y'all feel this is a loss, fix it.
>>>>
>>>> In any case, I had meant to send that comment to Gerard personally.
>>>> Sorry for the missend.
>>>>
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