Personal opinion, meant constructively: DigitalDivide.net used to count, I think. I've gone through with admin powers and removed spam blog postings, deleted spam users, and so forth. I'm not sure exactly when that problem started - probably along the timeline that all the spam comments on the blogs started showing up. The explanation for how all of that happened and was handled is a bit sketchy, so it's difficult to say.
The email list is stifled. And honestly, if I did have the time and energy to volunteer for moderating this email list, I would. But I have moderated email lists and discussion boards before, and they can be very problematic. Moderation requires someone whose eyes are on every message and who has the time to do things. And all of this gets back to the future of DDN because in my mind there is a question that there is a future of DDN. I think a lot of things are the result of the best intentions. If there is to be a future of DDN, we need to move past that and move into what the community wants. And while the community has pointed out that discussion has been stunted by moderation, the truth is that the wiki was presented and remains largely unused. So before we get into technicalities again, as well as human moderation of email messages, I suggest that people on the list consider whether they want DDN to have a future. That seems to be missing. From there, we can decide what that future will be. But first, people have to decide that they want it - and decide what they are willing to do toward a future of DDN. Andy Carvin wrote: > Does the DDN website (www.digitaldivide.net) and TakingITGlobal not count, > Deborah? > > ------------------------ > Andy Carvin > andycarvin at yahoo com > www.andycarvin.com > www.pbs.org/learningnow > -- Taran Rampersad taran.a.ramper...@gmail.com http://www.knowprose.com http://www.your2ndplace.com http://www.opendepth.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/knowprose/ "Criticize by Creating" - Michelangelo "The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine." - Nikola Tesla _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to digitaldivide-requ...@digitaldivide.net with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
