[WikiEN-l] Who's moderated?

[Casey Brown]

Can I ask you a question now?

1) If a moderator flat-out denies any or all of your "wants", will you drop
it?

On 9/3/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> > 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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