[Foundation-l] Stevertigo

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi.
Please consider a topic that matters. Navel gazing and fault finding are
hardly of a general interest.
Thanks.
      GerardM

2009/8/3 stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com>

> Actually youre not right about it Mark. I tried sending a  different
> titled message about the block and that returned a mod bounce also. Im
> no computer scientist but a name block not a killfile appears to have
> been the actual process used. Im not going to want to continue this
> thread any further.  S
>
> On 7/31/09, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The last post in that thread wasn't blocked because of its content, it
> > was blocked because the thread itself was blocked. I could try to
> > reply to it now with a little paragraph about sunshine and rainbows
> > and it wouldn't go through. Nobody read that message and made the
> > decision not to post it to the ML, at least as far as I can tell.
> >
> > It looks to me like Austin did exactly what he should've so I'm not
> > sure why you're implying he made an incorrect decision. Exactly what
> > did he do wrong in your opinion?
> >
> > Mark
> >
> > skype: node.ue
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 6:35 PM, stevertigo<stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Mark Williamson<node.ue at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> So you are saying that list administrators are technocrats only, that
> >>> they just carry out technical tasks and aren't asked to exercise their
> >>> own judgement and that you believe the order for your moderation was
> >>> handed down from someone else, someone who you would like to be
> >>> exposed?
> >>
> >> Well to be fair there were a number of people who expressed a strong
> >> dislike for the thread I started. And even though their posts were on
> >> their own were mostly insubstantial and rude, I understood that there
> >> were enough of them regardless, and so I replied with my last post
> >> indicating I would stop further posts here and take it back to
> >> wikien-l.
> >>
> >> The decision to actually do the blocking of the last post - the one in
> >> which I conceded the matter - was itself blocked by Austin alone
> >> apparently. If the other moderator was involved, he did not take any
> >> interest or action, as perhaps he should have. Perhaps there need to
> >> be more moderators on this list, like there are on wikien-l - such as
> >> to keep each other in check - and to insure that proper notification
> >> is posted to the public list, and to communicate intelligently with
> >> the blocked/moderated person.
> >>
> >> I don't know if anything at all is really discussed in private. That's
> >> just the way private communications work. What I am saying is that in
> >> general we even want our technocrats to be quite forthright about what
> >> they think and do, why, and where any orders or suggestions are coming
> >> from. To do otherwise would be quite unfair to them.
> >>
> >> -Stevertigo
> >>
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