On 21 Oct 2008 at 7:48, Dave Land wrote: > On Oct 21, 2008, at 5:20 AM, Andrew Crystall wrote: > > > On 19 Oct 2008 at 19:07, Nick Arnett wrote: > > > >> I'll stop feeding him now and perhaps ponder just how much > >> disruption the > >> list managers should tolerate. A lot, of course, but sheesh... > > > > Said it before, say it again: You're far too forgiving. > > > > On forum / list / wiki moderation, I fall into the Stalin/Gulag camp > > of moderation. I once was one of the admins a forum where we made > > people take and post photos of a hand-written apology to be able to > > post again after certain offences... > > And you settled for that only because you couldn't physically put them > in the stocks and have people pelt them with eggs?
Oh it didn't get posted publically. Unless they offended again, in which case they got banned and a nice picture of their appology stamped with a big red "Banned" got posted in a special sub-forum for it. Heh. There were six bans in two years in a very...often disagreeable...community of several hundred. AndrewC Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
