[Foundation-l] Stevertigo

[Mark Williamson]

So you are saying that list administrators are technocrats only, that
they just carry out technical tasks and aren't asked to exercise their
own judgement and that you believe the order for your moderation was
handed down from someone else, someone who you would like to be
exposed?

Just checking.

Mark

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:57 PM, stevertigo<stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Kwan Ting Chan<ktc at ktchan.info> wrote:
>
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_file>
>> Any emails to the mailing list with that subject line get auto deleted. And
>> you can see, no email with that subject line has appeared since.
>> 2. I would supect "we" are the moderators of the mailing list.
>> 3. That's what being under moderation means. Whether any particular person
>> should be under moderation is a different argument.
>
> I understand now that there are technocratic terms being used. Still,
> the issue of blocking someone is never a technocratic one, and
> therefore must not be left to the technocrats. Assuming good faith, I
> infer that the technocrat is not really the decider in such matters,
> and that such decisions are communicated behind the scenes.
>
> Exposing the politburo is one of the first principles of essential
> openness reform.
>
> -Stevertigo
>
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