I think the list and such will change once we have a forum like
audiogames.net does of a sort.
there are rooms for general, new stuff, news and offtopic stuff and
while I used to hate forums with a passion they kind of grew on me
and well I like both obviously email is my first choice to look at
but the forums I view once a day also so.
At 11:56 AM 3/19/2013, you wrote:
Hi Charles,
Yes, that's it in a nutshell. I gave detailed explanations why certain
guidelines are in place because I don't think people always realize
why a certain rule or guideline is there in the first place, and why
we would prefer people follow them.
Take the issue of trimming messages as an example. I have gotten a few
messages over the last few years to the effect what is the big deal,
other moderators aren't this picky, list x has no message length, etc
and what few of them think about is the fact those lists are probably
on Yahoo or Google and the owner of the list isn't paying for
bandwidth and storage space so can afford to have 20 KB, 50 KB, or 100
KB messages. Its no skin off his rear since Yahoo or Google is
covering the costs to have that much space and bandwidth wasted. When
you are the soul admin of a list and there are actual admin costs
associated with its operation it makes sense to set some very basic
limits to keep the costs down. By telling people why a certain
guideline like that exists makes people more willing to follow it than
just say this or that is the rules and give no explanation for it.
In my experience as a parent and a list moderator people are much more
willing to listen to the rules, the guidelines, when there is a clear
reason why that rule or guideline exists. When people are unable to
see a clear reason for a rule they are more often as not likely
willing to ignore it., and then we have problems since someone is out
of line.
On 3/18/13, Charles Rivard <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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