[WikiEN-l] Who's moderated?

[fredbaud at waterwiki.info]

It's better to have moderation. Some folks just fill the list up with negative useless stuff.

Fred

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marc Riddell [mailto:michaeldavid86 at comcast.net]
>Sent: Monday, September 3, 2007 05:11 PM
>To: 'English Wikipedia'
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Who's moderated?
>
>
>> On 03/09/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> As for it being small, I'm not suprised. Only very active Wikipedians
>>> would be interested in the mailing list, and not all of them. In
>>> September 2006 (the last month I can find stats for - do we have stats
>>> anywhere from after the toolserver failed?), 4330 accounts made more
>>> than 100 edits. Accounting for growth, etc., I'd say about 10% of very
>>> active Wikipedians are on this mailing list. Seems about right.
>> 
>on 9/3/07 11:21 AM, David Gerard at dgerard at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> As an official place for discussion of en:wp matters, this list tends
>> to select from the most interested.
>> 
>> As one of the last points of appeal for the banned (hence its position
>> as official sewer of en:wp - a function that makes the place cleaner
>> and nicer, but you probably don't want to fish through the output), it
>> tends to select from the least suited.
>> 
>> This creates an interesting list atmosphere requiring more work
>> moderating than any sensible list should ...
>> 
>> 
>Everyone,
>
>Since I was the one who started this thread, allow me to clarify my thoughts
>about the subject.
>
>This is not a direct response to, nor especially directed at, you David.
>But, since you are a Moderator on this List, I thought this would be a good
>a place as any to speak it.
>
>During a private email discussion with a person I have come to respect on
>this List, and do look forward to their contributions, they made a
>statement; and then, as an aside, said that they could never make the remark
>in a post to the List because they were on moderation. I was stunned! Having
>read and enjoyed all of their past posts, I could not for the life of me
>imagine why they would be on moderation. Then I wondered who else was being
>similarly moderated - and why. That is the background of my post.
>
>What I would like to see:
>
>1) A List of persons in this Community who are currently on Moderation; and
>the reason they are being moderated.
>
>2) Any person on moderation who chooses not to be identified on this list,
>has the right not to be.
>
>3) That only blatant spam, and unintelligible bullshit be moderated from the
>List. I can only imagine the amount and type of crap you must weed through.
>But, please, allow me the right to decide what I do and do not want to read.
>
>That's it folks,
>
>Marc
>
>-- 
>If you don't ask the questions - you have no excuse for not knowing the
>answers.
>
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