Since I have seen lots of people complaining about other
people's messages and styles and that this diversity of
opinion is dooming the list to extinction, and since I haven't
read any serious proposition to fix this, I took the initiative
to propose the following rules:
(a) We will vote on what are the acceptable ideas that
may be defended and the ideas that can't be defended here.
I propose that this votation be proportional to the number
of messages in the past 5 years.
(b) We will elect a moderator that will enforce (a) using
his own judgement to suspend the right to post of the
offenders for a given period [say, 1 day], doubling the
suspension if the offense is repeated
(c) If, at any moment, we feel that the moderator [elected in
(b)] is not moderating correctly, we may vote his/her
impeachment. If the proposer of the impeachment succeeds,
then he/she becomes the next moderator. And the loser
of the impeachment votation is forever forbidden to post to
the list
Alberto Monteiro
