On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Chris Browet <c...@semperpax.com> wrote: > But every opinions should have a place to voice themselves, shouldn't they?
No. Not all opinions are helpful. And certainly, sheer volume of opinions is unhelpful. > If Talk becomes moderated/censured, where would that be? > Wouldn't it better to create specific, on-topic moderated lists (and > moderate the existing ones) rather than moderating "Talk", whose topic is > not obvious? > > Then people who don't want the noise can just turn it off, while leaving a > place of "free speech", and topic-focused lists would be sane... If anything, I would do the opposite: tightly moderate Talk as a community forum where issues of all nature can be discussed, if done so constructively and succinctly. Individual specialist lists could be left unmoderated. Since the numbers of subscribers are lower, they can form and enforce their own standards more easily. Btw, once more, this notion of "those who don't want the spam don't have to read it" is just plain wrong. The spam overwhelms the valuable discussion, meaning everyone suffers. It's not a question of "if you don't like the rain, don't stand in it". Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk