[Foundation-l] moderate this list

[Anders Wennersten]

One idea could be to introduce a rule that each user should limit 
his/her entries to maximum one/day and thread

I am sure this would lead to better quality, without stopping valuable 
input, and make the list much more comprehensive and useful. (With this 
rule last days 80 entires would probalbly been limited to something like 20)

foundation-l is a resource that could be made to be of much use and 
importance if just the chattiness was limited
 Anders


Mark Williamson skrev:
> Exactly. If you write too many messages, you run the risk that the
> majority will start to habitually skip over (most of) your messages.
>
> Think of it this way (this is a very simplistic model I think, I'm not
> an economist): when the central bank of a country prints too much
> currency, this can cause the value of the currency to go down.
>
> Similarly, if there is a famous painter who only made 5 paintings,
> they will probably fetch a higher price than if s/he had made 500.
> It's fine if you always have something to say but I think we have all
> (the more prolific posters here) been guilty of posting two or three
> (or more) replies to the same thread at once without waiting for
> others when we could have consolidated into a single e-mail.
>
> Also, in my opinion (and yours may be different), although I do have
> an opinion on nearly every thread on this list, it is not always
> necessary for everybody to know what I think; this is after all a
> platform for discussion, not for people to come and find out how I
> feel about things.
>
> Mark
>
> skype: node.ue
>
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Jussi-Ville
> Heiskanen<cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Thomas Dalton wrote:
>>     
>>> 2009/8/28 Anders Wennersten <anders.wennersten at bonetmail.com>:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I have only been on this list for a month, but I am confused over what I
>>>> read. There are over 700 subscribers, but two, Anthony and Thoams Dalton
>>>> is allowed, to generate more then a third of all entries and often just
>>>> these two are driving a whole thread discussion. On Wikipedia we all
>>>> work hard to work for consensus (all voices are welcome) and stop people
>>>> dominating a subject. Why is it allowed for two persons to take over a
>>>> list like it is done here?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> We haven't taken anything over. There is nothing stopping anyone else
>>> from contributing to the discussion as well.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Other than good sense. (Contributing endless reams of text, that is.)
>>
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
>>
>>
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