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Re: A disturbing trend seems to be developing
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Wed, 3 Nov 1999 23:37:26 GMT
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lpieniazek@novera.com(NoMoreSpam)
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Sproaticus wrote:
> 
> Eric Kingsley wrote:
> > [...]
> > It would just be nice if we had a good way of helping Todd manage this type of
> > problem without offending other people with flames.
> 
> Speaking for myself here...
> 
> It's my understanding that the more self-governing LUGNET is, the happier Todd
> is.  There's really nothing stopping any of us from intelligently reprimanding
> folks for off-topic posts with a reply to the off-topic message, an e-mail
> cc'd to the offender, and a follow-up to .admin.general -- as per Todd's
> preferred method.  We would need to invoke the wrath of Todd only for repeat
> offenders.

And if someone took the time to draft a standard email, get consensus
from "key participants" (whatever than means) and then posted it to the
FAQ, it would make it a lot easier for "helpers" to do it in a
consistent and non judgemental manner.

While you and I can fire off a snippy post with the best of them, if we
instead had a canned reply, that said it was canned and explained where
to see the other ones, only those people that we didn't care if we
offended or not would take offense.

> 
> But Eric seems to be leading up to the possibility of moderated forums, an
> idea bounced back and forth here several times in the past.  Unfortunately, a
> moderated group needs at least one person reviewing all messages, and for
> large groups such as .general , this can get to be a full-time job.  It's
> probably better for all of us to moderate each other.

I'll repeat my suggestion of moderating repeat offenders rather than
moderating forums....


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(...) Speaking for myself here... It's my understanding that the more self-governing LUGNET is, the happier Todd is. There's really nothing stopping any of us from intelligently reprimanding folks for off-topic posts with a reply to the off-topic (...) (27 years ago, 3-Nov-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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