As a reader I would also appreciate it to happen in private. I trust the
admins to make a sane decision, and if things go berzerk and they make a
string of bad decisions, I trust it'll come up on the list then.
Lodewijk
2016-07-26 16:28 GMT+02:00 Richard Symonds <richard.symonds(a)wikimedia.org.uk
Generally, it is better to discuss it privately with
the list admins. This
prevents the worst side of mailing lists: a one-sided dogpile on an
individual, who, disruptive or not, should get a fair hearing by the
person(s) whose job it is to moderate.
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On 26 July 2016 at 15:14, Nathan <nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Brill Lyle
<wp.brilllyle(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I was on a very active music mailing list for
over 10 years and I was
grateful it was not moderated. Moderation can inhibit discussion, even
when
> there are disruptors, and it also requires moderators donate a lot of
> volunteer hours. Which I think within the Wikimedia family community is
> already being required of many of us. So I would vote against
moderation.
>
> If an argument / shift was towards moderation, maybe it could be based
on
> edit count and/or contributions? But that
seems a bit extreme and
awful.
>
> - Erika
>
> *Erika Herzog*
> Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle
*
We need moderators to manage spam if for no other reason, and it has been
helpful in many cases in the 8-9 years I have been subscribed to this
list
to inhibit disruption and encourage civil
exchange. We also have a "soft
limit" of 30 posts per month that has rarely needed to be enforced but is
still technically on the books.
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