nah, it's worked out well. On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Rick Tanner <rick at real-time.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > As requested, I'm speaking here as one of the mailing list > administrators -- and *NOT* moderator (please keep reading..) or not > as a subscriber. > > > For the most recent events from March-30-2014, since it seemed a > flamewar was well on it's way, I stepped forward and placed the > moderation setting on a particular subscriber. > > Next topic. > > The TCLUG-list has no content or subscriber moderators. > > Here's why: > > Anytime there has been an issue or problem, the list has moderated > itself. > > Other subscribers speak up on what they want to see changed and make > suggestions for such change. Others chime in and a general consensus > is met. The concept of netiquette prevails. > > Do you, as list subscribers, want a person or people in charge of > moderating content? > > If so, then the list needs to agree on what is acceptable and not > acceptable to post in the list and a course of action to take when the > unacceptable happens. And another thing to keep in mind, any policy > creation will need to retroactively apply to all subscribers on the > list now. How well is that going to be received? > > If this should proceed, then how are moderators chosen? > I.e., nomination and voting or strictly volunteer or some other > method? How many are allowed? > > And the "other duties" such as: (to name a few) > > * How are tasks tracked between moderators to make sure one does not > undo the work of the others? > * Is there a need for any kind of audit trail for moderators and > their moderation actions? > * Is there a chain of command between moderators? > * How are disagreements and policy discussion between moderators > handled? > * What course of actions can a subscriber take dispute a moderation > ruling? > * How is such a dispute handled? > > > > > > > > So, as a list administrator, what do we do? > > As list administrators, we make sure the list is available, as in up & > running. Email posts come in, they get distributed to subscribers and > a copy is made available in the mailing list archives. We reject the > 20 to 30 spam messages per day that try to make it to the list and in > very rare cases manually unsubscribe or subscribe someone for numerous > reasons per their request. We are either invisible, or in trouble. ;-) > > > > - -- > Rick Tanner <rick at real-time.com> | Phone : (952) 943-8700 > http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952) 943-8500 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iQEVAwUBUzm6QVwn8veVxBRBAQKvcAf/VDjS6l8zj11oOSYY/hLzAtVotU7+jY5e > KECnTgW2Np2zsw5a9A9gEbqkQjNbeW9+5TTJs97Ek1I4wHRQtDao25ivbb6ETYVW > 7f4qIdmL7e6yRU7WahhwTB8vkpchrx2DulWSc6jR+YKWq6rH5a6rvhjwZaMsWxI2 > WoiLXN594e3NtOg/4T9oSN9YIgl9fRZ0aEXd1k/ttALKrdW18fH+1Qqi+LvWPcKM > CRTaGie7l+pJvMbpQ79yjIaz2bCjmdikhykB7It4Pe8c4+7MJWbOt59Mw0xRaDRa > ps0I3eg4Ju0FyB4GD1Fw6qNC/kztJ2YQTsRX0xL+bd7lTv88lrDW1Q== > =2AlU > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140331/ad05cd18/attachment.html>