Actually youre not right about it Mark. I tried sending a different titled message about the block and that returned a mod bounce also. Im no computer scientist but a name block not a killfile appears to have been the actual process used. Im not going to want to continue this thread any further. S
On 7/31/09, Mark Williamson <[email protected]> wrote: > The last post in that thread wasn't blocked because of its content, it > was blocked because the thread itself was blocked. I could try to > reply to it now with a little paragraph about sunshine and rainbows > and it wouldn't go through. Nobody read that message and made the > decision not to post it to the ML, at least as far as I can tell. > > It looks to me like Austin did exactly what he should've so I'm not > sure why you're implying he made an incorrect decision. Exactly what > did he do wrong in your opinion? > > Mark > > skype: node.ue > > > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 6:35 PM, stevertigo<[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Mark Williamson<[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> So you are saying that list administrators are technocrats only, that >>> they just carry out technical tasks and aren't asked to exercise their >>> own judgement and that you believe the order for your moderation was >>> handed down from someone else, someone who you would like to be >>> exposed? >> >> Well to be fair there were a number of people who expressed a strong >> dislike for the thread I started. And even though their posts were on >> their own were mostly insubstantial and rude, I understood that there >> were enough of them regardless, and so I replied with my last post >> indicating I would stop further posts here and take it back to >> wikien-l. >> >> The decision to actually do the blocking of the last post - the one in >> which I conceded the matter - was itself blocked by Austin alone >> apparently. If the other moderator was involved, he did not take any >> interest or action, as perhaps he should have. Perhaps there need to >> be more moderators on this list, like there are on wikien-l - such as >> to keep each other in check - and to insure that proper notification >> is posted to the public list, and to communicate intelligently with >> the blocked/moderated person. >> >> I don't know if anything at all is really discussed in private. That's >> just the way private communications work. What I am saying is that in >> general we even want our technocrats to be quite forthright about what >> they think and do, why, and where any orders or suggestions are coming >> from. To do otherwise would be quite unfair to them. >> >> -Stevertigo >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
