[WikiEN-l] Who's moderated?
Rich Holton
richholton at gmail.com
Wed Sep 5 14:45:27 UTC 2007
David Gerard wrote:
> On 05/09/07, Rich Holton <richholton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Too late for what? Of course you can't "unread" what you've read, but
>> I'm NOT advocating the elimination of all moderation...I am advocating
>> the light-handed application of it. I support moderating messages that
>> contain personal attacks, etc. What harm have you received by reading a
>> message? Or by reading a message enough to decide it's not worth reading
>> further? And you can decide for yourself whether to respond.
>
>
> We keep the moderation light because otherwise it's a damn nuisance.
>
> People get put on mod by being massive pains in the backside. Even
> then, their messages get through if they aren't a continuation of
> being the massive pain in the backside.
>
> The default moderation of new members is a massive pain in the
> backside itself, but was put into place (and then put back into place
> after it was removed) because people posting annoying rubbish to the
> list would just morph addresses to continue. We keep an eye on this in
> the hope of being able to remove it again.
>
>
> - d.
>
I really am not criticizing the job the mods are doing. I hope that's
not how I've come across.
-Rich
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