[Foundation-l] Improving foundation-l

[Ray Saintonge]

wjhonson at aol.com wrote:
> The entire page is founded on unsubstantiated and generic complaints
> which all lists share.  I'm on moderated lists which are completely horrible.
> And I'm on unmoderated lists which are absolutely excellent.
>
> Jimmy Wales himself has stated, and I've quoted him in one of my articles
> that when he ran his own discussion group he allowed people to talk themselves
> out.  There will always be people who unsubscribe, there will always be
> new subscribers.  There is no fix which will address that issue.
>
> There will always be people complaining that something is broken, there
> will always be people saying nothing is broken.
>
> Let's see some actual numbers, actual citations and actual research
> that others can test, prod, and comprehend.  The page right now has
> nothing like a scientific approach to even a description of the problem
> let alone trying to find any "solution".
>
>   
What a novel idea! ;-)

Letting people talk themselves out works best hand-in-hand with "Don't 
feed the trolls." A troll in this context is whoever you subjectively 
fell is talking too much.

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