Dear Goanet Administrators, I have some suggestions regarding moderation of discussions on Goanet mainly to reduce the burden on you who are doing a very difficult and thankless job.
By virtue of the fact that Goanet is a moderated list, you can formulate and explicitly state some clear-cut, uniform rules of moderation, and alert everybody that you would strictly abide by these rules. These rules could be something along the following lines: 1. No more than 4 posts per day per person. Any extra posts will be rejected irrespective of the content, except if it is an emergency alert. 2. Any posts containing serious personal attacks or accusations against private individuals will be rejected. 3. Any contentious and heated argument will be terminated after 5 rounds, at the discretion of the moderators, after giving one last opportunity to the contenders to state their closing arguments. 4. No private complaints against any individual or against the content of any post will be entertained. All complaints should be posted publicly in the forum. Please don't regard the above as some haughty piece of advice from me. I don't like to advise people, and you folks certainly have more experience in these matters than I do. Cheers, Santosh
