Hi, Tom: Don't think that you're sounding like a hard case. What you're
basically asking us to do is to follow the guidelines with explanations as
to why. We should, individually, moderate our own messages in order to help
take the load, and expense off of you, and I'll work on my messages, that's
for sure. I appreciate the work you do. Thanks.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2013 3:27 PM
Subject: [Audyssey] Moderator Important Message for the List
Hi all,
I don't want to sound like a serious hard case here, but there are a
few list issues I felt that needed addressed, and further more I could
address them all in a single post. So please read this message and
consider it as your final warning on these issues.
Inflammatory Comments
As per the guidelines list members are to treat other list members
with a certain degree of respect, and that can go for games and other
products as well. Using terms such as retarded, stupid, crap, etc are
just negative and do not offer any sort of constructive criticism how
the person might improve his or her post, game, or whatever the
inflammatory comment is aimed at.. While I support freedom of speech
when and where possible the inflammatory comments and put downs stop
here. Anyone caught putting another person or product down in such a
manner will be put on 30 days moderation no questions asked.
Proper Spelling
While I'm sure we all prefer reading posts where the person has done
his or her best to proofread the contents, spell words correctly, and
use proper punctuation I am none-the-less aware that we are not all
perfect and make mistakes. Moreover I am also aware that many people
who may be on this list may have additional disabilities besides being
visually impaired. Dyslexia, for example, has been known to effect the
person's ability to properly spell words. Since we do not know each
and everyone of you personally, have no way of knowing if there is any
mental impairments involved, it is difficult for us to impose a rule
to use proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation on the list.
That said, I think there is a solution to the problem. If you or
anyone else has a problem with a certain list members spelling,
punctuation, or grammar we can attempt to mediate it off list. Rather
than bringing the subject up on list, disrupting the flow of a topic,
you should e-mail the moderators at
[email protected]
and we can attempt to mediate the situation, and see if there is a
real medical reason for the persons poor spelling, grammar, etc or it
is simply a case of a person being a lazy poster. In either case I
don't want it to become a witch hunt, or continue to be a source of
contention on list.
Subject Lines
As with many mailing lists it is always a good idea to rename the
subject of the post when the topic changes. There are two important
reasons for this.
First, if someone is going through an inbox full of messages, and if
they are like me, they delete everything that they don't intend to
read or respond to. So if you ask about Castaways in a message with
the subject of Swamp chances are that a good number of people who
could have helped with your question deleted the post unread because
the message was titled incorrectly.
Second, is this list archives all of the messages, and if messages are
archived under the wrong subject line it makes it difficult to later
locate the answer to a question when it is stored in a thread
unrelated to the topic being searched for.
So if you intend to change the topic of a thread change the subject
line as well. It will make life easier for everyone all around.
Message Length
While I have never considered this a serious disciplinary problem it
still remains to be a common problem with list members. When we
created this list we gave it a cap of a 10 KB limit per message which
is about three pages of text. Just enough for one message plus a
response in most cases. There were two reasons for this 10 KB limit.
At the time we created this list there were still plenty of people who
have to pay for the amount of bandwidth they use per month. The more
e-mail they download the more they have to pay. This is still the case
in some places, and we of course want to keep the relative cost of
being a list subscriber down for those people who have to pay for the
amount of bandwidth they use per month by filtering out any
unnecessary junk such as having 50 KB messages with multiple copies of
messages going all the way back to the beginning of the thread which
is ridiculous.
More importantly the list owner, yours truly, is now responsible for
paying for the amount of bandwidth used by the list, sending and
receiving messages, and I see no need to use more bandwidth than
absolutely necessary. I have purchased an 8 GB cap, which should be
plenty for the list's needs, but there isn't any need to waste it
unnecessarily either.
Finally, I mentioned before this list is regularly archived. I checked
the tarball the other day and the Audyssey archives now have surpassed
1 GB. This means if we want to continue offering the archives as a
resource we should try to make the archived messages short and to the
point rather than wasting server space on copies of copies of copies.
So all I am saying is please trim your messages. We, the list
moderators, will reject any post that is larger than 10 KB unless it
is a clear case of a post that could not be trimmed to 10 KB such as a
news letter, article, lengthy explanation of a solution, etc.
Sincerely,
Thomas Ward
Owner-Moderator of the Audyssey List
[email protected]
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