[WikiEN-l] Who's moderated?

[JodyB]

I don't think people are placed on moderation lightly, if they are there 
are numerous ways to contact people on the list and oppose their 
moderation. This seems a classic tempest in a teacup so let's move on.

JodyB

Marc Riddell 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
>
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