[Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

Jon Davis wiki at konsoletek.com
Fri Oct 21 02:27:22 UTC 2011


IIRC, They said that the "soft limit" would simply mean that they'd make
sure any post beyond 30 were at least somewhat useful. The impression I got
was that if you wanted to send 100 at least semi-constructive emails, you'd
get through. If you want to flame and flame and flame ... you'd get cut at
30.

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 19:19, John Vandenberg <jayvdb at gmail.com> wrote:

> topic was: Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial
> Content
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Andreas K. <jayen466 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:19 PM, David Levy <lifeisunfair at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Andreas Kolbe wrote:
> >>
> >> > Whether to add a media file to an article or not is always a
> >> > cost/benefit not is always a cost/benefit question. It does not make
> >> > sense to argue that any benefit, however small and superficial,
> >> > outweighs any cost, however large and substantive.
> >>
> >> Agreed.  I'm not arguing that.
> >>
> >> Your replies seem indicative of a belief that my position is "Let's
> >> include every illustrative image, no matter what."  That isn't so.  My
> >> point is merely that we aren't bound by others' decisions.
> >>
> >> David Levy
> >>
> >
> >
> > David,
> >
> > I think we've reached about as much agreement in this stimulating
> exchange
> > as we're likely to. I don't actually know what your position in any
> specific
> > dispute around illustration would be; I don't think we've ever met in one
> of
> > those on-wiki. I don't assume that we'd necessarily be far apart.
>
> Does that mean this stimulating exchange is over!? ;-)
> If not, could you both continue this discussion over on Meta,
> Wikipedia or in a private email.
>
> There was a 30 post per person monthly "soft" limit on foundation-l.
> Is that still in place?
> (if its changed, please update [[meta:foundation-l]])
>
> Jayen, you're winning this month at 42 already ;-)
>
> Thomas Morton is coming second with 35.
>
> Jussi-Ville, Nemo, David, Kim, you're at 27, 27, 25 and 25 respectively.
>
> The stats are here
>
> http://www.infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/ScanMail/foundation-l.html
> (thanks Erik Zachte)
>
> Somehow David Gerard, Milos Rancic, Kim and Tobias Oelgarte made it to
> 96, 95, 89 and 83 posts last month.  Last month Thomas Dalton,
> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen and I posted 39, 37 and 35 times respectively,
> and everyone else was under the 30 post soft limit.
>
> Could the mods please enforce this a bit more.  I think it has been
> detrimental to the list to allow so few people to dominate the
> discussions here.
>
> --
> John Vandenberg
>
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