Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote: > On Mar 30, 2007, at 3:17 PM, John Oliver wrote: > >> Mike is right... the OT stuff has gotten out of control. I couldn't >> resist throwing my $.02 in as well, so I'm just as guilty as anyone >> else. Maybe jackbooted Fascist thug moderation wouldn't be a terrible >> idea... :-) > > Okay, what do we want to pay for the position, and what kind of lag time > are we willing to accept between a message being sent to the list and > the moderator finally approving it? > > I expect that moderation of said list would become tedious in very short > order. > > When we attempted group moderation of the lists a while back, it rapidly > fell into "so-and-so is doing all the moderation, so I don't have to" > and would periodically rotate through everyone primarily via the > mechanism of "gee, nobody's checked the moderator queue for three months?" >
I would rather live with OT pain than go to moderation. SS and JHRIV were brainstorming (in -kooler, OT ;-) for there, I suppose) a bit about ways to fairly throttle back on selected threads. And RS suggested something like auto-switching from -list to -kooler, which also sounds interesting. To me, that is the most appealing, if a mechanism could be devised that doesn't take much management effort. Either of those ideas also requires some human trigger, but it might be a lot less effort (and risk of list-flow disruption) than moderation. It might be amenable to shared responsibility, and even community request, though. I think that throttling back (adding a delay to hot messages) might well cool some tempers, but wouldn't help in part of what we saw on this thread, namely, someone doing heavy but delayed FIFO posting (perhaps by virtue of dial-up access or ..) will not be much impacted by added delay. The "Derailleur" approach sounds most promising to me. A notice of the switch can be posted to -list, and as someone remarked, interested parties who are unwilling to subscribe to (or examine archives of) -kooler is not the concern of the poster. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
