On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Ryan Lomonaco <[email protected]>wrote:
> After reviewing the comments of foundation-l participants over the last few > days, we've come up with a few changes that we hope will ultimately improve > the tenor and scope of discussions. > > To start, we're placing two participants on temporary moderation: Thomas > Dalton and WJhonson. The conversations that have been most problematic > recently were those that involved one or both users. We do not intend to > place them or any other users on permanent moderation at this time, > however. > > When appropriate, we will be using moderation more often, for short periods > of time when we feel doing so will allow cooler heads to prevail. The idea > behind moderation has never been punitive, but it's often been treated as > such by many, and as a result, we have not used it as often as we could > have. Going forward, our intent is that being placed on moderation should > not be viewed as a slight, or as a punishment, but as a way to retain > civility within a discussion. > > Second, we're adding a "soft post limit" that, for the time being, will > kick > in at 30 posts per month. At that point, we will, at our discretion, place > members on moderation for the remainder of the month, and will approve > posts > only where we feel they are useful and add significantly to the discussion. > > With these changes, our goal is not to stifle anyone, but to avoid the > situation where a few voices dominate the conversation, and the arguments, > often off-topic, that have inhibited important discussions recently. We do > not feel, for example, that specific users need to be permanently > moderated; > however, all users, including prolific posters, should bear in mind that > should their posts become off-topic, overly argumentative, or uncivil, they > may be moderated temporarily. > > We leave open the possibility that other changes may be useful in the > future, so ideas for improvement going forward are always welcome, either > at > the Meta page <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Improving_Foundation-l> or > via > e-mail, at [email protected]. > > As of this post, the list is now unmoderated. We welcome your thoughts on > this issue. > > Sincerely, > > Austin Hair > Ryan Lomonaco > As a spectator of most of the nonsense that goes on here, I think it's great that the list admins are finally doing something about it. Hopefully these steps will be sufficient. -- Ryan User:Rjd0060 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
