[WikiEN-l] Who's moderated?

[Majorly]

On 03/09/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> > Marc Riddell wrote:
> >> on 9/2/07 5:52 PM, Thomas Dalton at thomas.dalton at gmail.com wrote:
> >>
> >>>> Not sure why you'd need to know. Any reason? People are usually
> moderated
> >>>> for good reason.
> >>>>
> >>> Just for the sake of transparency, I guess.
> >>>
> >> Yes! If this List, much less the Project, is to maintain any
> credibility,
> >> and the confidence of its Community, it has got to remain open, fair
> and
> >> honest to all. Secrecy breeds suspicion, which breeds distrust. I have
> never
> >> blindly followed anyone. And too many people have ended up in my
> therapy
> >> room for having done just that.
>
> on 9/2/07 8:04 PM, Ray Saintonge at saintonge at telus.net wrote:
>
> > I do have mixed feelings on this because it is a question of conflicting
> > values.  Both privacy rights and operational transparency are
> > important.  Still it is not enough to say that we must trust somebody
> > simply because he is in a position of leadership.  Most people in that
> > position will not abuse the position, but occasionally some do, or
> > perhaps we need sound data so that the community can determine whether
> > the underlying policy is correct.
> >
> > We don't need a list of the dedicated spammers; that would be too
> > boring.  We don't need to know the names of the list newcomers who start
> > with a clearly offensive or overly aggressive post, though some
> > statistics would be interesting.  I would still be more sympathetic to
> > knowing about what happens to people who were already list members, and
> > who went over some kind of line.  This is where the community may have a
> > different opinion about the punishment.  Perhaps the affected person
> > should have some input into whether the action should be kept
> confidential.
> >
> Is is really the persons being moderated who want the fact be kept
> confidential?
>
> If I were to become a moderated voice on this List - I would want EVERYONE
> to know. Then let the other Members of the Community decide if that voice
> is
> one they want to be protected from.
>
> Marc
>
>
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That is you. Others may not.

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Alex (Majorly)