Marc Riddell wrote:
Folks,
I just learned by private email, that one of most articulate and frequent contributors to this List is on moderation.
In the interest of full and honest disclosure, I would like to see a list of all persons who are currently on moderation - and why.
Marc Riddell
I've actually read through most of this thread so far. Just a couple observations:
* I prefer the moderators to use moderation sparingly. I'd rather that I make the decision of who I should ignore. Of course, pure spam should be moderated. And abusive posts as well. But I would rather not see someone moderated for simply being disliked and persistent.
* Somewhere in the thread it was mentioned that most non-automatic moderations are announced on list. I know I seen such announcements in the past. Isn't this list archived? Could not someone search through the archives and compile a list? Labor-intensive, yes. But doable. And the fact that those announcements *are* made would seem to reduce the weight of any argument about "privacy" or "black marks". There does not seem to be any presumption of privacy regarding moderation on the list. (I'm not referring here to the issue of other private data being included in some posting of a list).
* Which raises a third point, or question really: Are there times when a contributor is put on moderation and intentionally not announced to the list? That would be troubling...the exception being, I suppose, if someone were to request that it not be announced to the list in their case, but that seems an unlikely scenario, since as I understand it, there is no "negotiating" over moderation.
-Rich Holton