[WikiEN-l] My proposal

[Fred Bauder]

on 12/12/02 6:49 PM, koyaanisqatsi at nupedia.com at koyaanisqatsi at nupedia.com
wrote:

> Jimbo writes:
>> What do you think of my idea of my selecting a board of "approvers"
>> who don't reject posts, and then me logging in once a day (at least)
>> to handle the rest?  This shouldn't burden my time unnecessarily, nor
>> should it slow the list down much, if we have enough approvers to keep
>> things moving along reasonably well.
> 
> I like this idea, at first, but then I remember Cunctator's objections
> and am put in mind of Kitty Genovese.  In short, while I doubt
> anyone's life will be on the line based on a posting to wikiEN (or
> lack thereof), the underlying principle is the same, isn't it?
> Sometimes groupthink in public keeps people from acting when they
> should, and no one is left accountable.
> 
> What would keep the "approvers" from ignoring a valuable message
> without consequence?  Suppose all approvers came to dislike a poster
> and all independently decided to ignore the poster, but the poster had
> something valuable to say?
> 
> kq

Yes, the stuff of nightmare... However just as common sense sometimes
prevails in editing it will prevail in this situation too. Potential
moderators are also modivated to find value, if possible.

Fred