[Foundation-l] Stevertigo

[Mark Williamson]

The last post in that thread wasn't blocked because of its content, it
was blocked because the thread itself was blocked. I could try to
reply to it now with a little paragraph about sunshine and rainbows
and it wouldn't go through. Nobody read that message and made the
decision not to post it to the ML, at least as far as I can tell.

It looks to me like Austin did exactly what he should've so I'm not
sure why you're implying he made an incorrect decision. Exactly what
did he do wrong in your opinion?

Mark

skype: node.ue



On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 6:35 PM, stevertigo<stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Mark Williamson<node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> Well to be fair there were a number of people who expressed a strong
> dislike for the thread I started. And even though their posts were on
> their own were mostly insubstantial and rude, I understood that there
> were enough of them regardless, and so I replied with my last post
> indicating I would stop further posts here and take it back to
> wikien-l.
>
> The decision to actually do the blocking of the last post - the one in
> which I conceded the matter - was itself blocked by Austin alone
> apparently. If the other moderator was involved, he did not take any
> interest or action, as perhaps he should have. Perhaps there need to
> be more moderators on this list, like there are on wikien-l - such as
> to keep each other in check - and to insure that proper notification
> is posted to the public list, and to communicate intelligently with
> the blocked/moderated person.
>
> I don't know if anything at all is really discussed in private. That's
> just the way private communications work. What I am saying is that in
> general we even want our technocrats to be quite forthright about what
> they think and do, why, and where any orders or suggestions are coming
> from. To do otherwise would be quite unfair to them.
>
> -Stevertigo
>
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