On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 9:48 PM Patricia Shanahan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 7/21/2019 12:17 PM, Craig Russell wrote: > > Hi Myrle, > > > > The current page (thanks for acting on this so quickly) says: > > > > Your comment has been rejected as off-topic. It is not helpful in moving > the project forward. > > > > My intent was to say it's not only off-topic but it is not helpful to > *any* project. Moderator has already passed beyond "off-topic but otherwise > useful". So I think we are not at off-topic at all. We are at not helpful. > Think "self-aggrandizement", "pure sarcastic snark". > > > > So I'd rephrase the moderation comment: > > > > Your comment has been rejected as not helpful in moving the project > forward. > > Do the moderation guidelines need a special case for > unhelpful-through-repetition? To take an extreme case, posting exactly > the same message 100 times would be unhelpful, even if the message in > itself were on topic and otherwise fine. > See https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/EDI/Draft+moderation+guidelines The first item is repetitive posting. I haven't named an "n" : o) Best, Myrle
