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Re: stepping up to the dead horse (was some other title)
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:52:38 GMT
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On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 06:42:18PM +0000, Kelly J. McKiernan wrote:
> We've discussed "public" vs "private" notification of timeouts. This
> is a valid concern. Initially we decided upon private because a
> timeout was a chance to give somebody a chance to reconsider an
> offensive post or set of posts. It wasn't meant as public
> chastisement.
I think having a public record of timeouts is important - not only it
allows the users (that you guys are serving, right?) keep an eye on how
well you're doing your job, but it also shows that _something_ is
getting done, and can be used to teach by example what's acceptable and
what's not.
> FUT set to lugnet.admin.general.
Thanks for noteing this explicitly. News-by-email users (like myself)
don't see what the FUT is set to otherwise.
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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