[WikiEN-l] Blocking / moderation

[stevertigo]

Excellent comments by Bod Notbod.

Posting my response under the 'A modest proposal - a recap of
resolution-l' thread.

-Stevertigo



On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Bod Notbod<bodnotbod at gmail.com> wrote:

> I like transparency too.
>
> It makes me pause to wonder whether a dispute resolution mailing list
> is actually against the grain of that. I've only recently signed up to
> a couple of the mailing lists as I intend to get (and am getting) more
> involved with Wikipedia. These lists have a pretty low profile, I'd
> say.
>
> Whilst these mailing lists are, I believe, open for everyone to join,
> it still strikes me as a bit of a back door: I would have thought it
> far more transparent to deal with all dispute resolution on the wiki
> itself where people can see what's going on (and people can place
> relevant links easily) rather than in an email list which is going to
> have a rather different audience.
>
> To put it another way, if I were an editor in dispute with someone
> else and I wasn't subscribed to the mailing list and I become aware
> the other person was discussing it there, I think I'd rightly feel
> that there was something "going on" in a sort of conspiratorial way
> and that a conscious effort had been made to circumvent tackling my
> points.
>
> The wiki (en, at least) doesn't seem short of ways and means to deal
> with disputes. I'm somewhat sceptical about the motivation in creating
> a new channel for disputes that requires all parties to sign up for an
> email service to be fully cognisant of where that dispute is heading.
>
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