[me] > If you want more active moderation, volunteer for the job. I'd happily > give it up, and acknowledge that my laissez-faire moderation approach > is out of style.
But, please, don't tell _me_ off-list that you volunteer. I want no say in who would become a new moderator - I'm already doing the job as I believe it's _best_ done. "Hands off" as much as possible. So if the community disagrees, they need to work out among themselves "the rules" for what should be suppressed, and pick moderators they believe will enforce those rules. I'm old, and cut my online discussion teeth via Usenet. It was total chaos, and I came to appreciate that deeply. Nobody was silenced by a central authority, but then again nobody could insist on being heard either. News readers quickly grew rather sophisticated notions of "killfiles", which allowed a user to quickly render posters they found useless, and/or toxic threads, and/or ... (anything that could be identified by a web of user-supplied regular expressions) completely invisible to them. The unsolvable problem I see with trying to ask a moderator to do that for everyone at once is that, to stop complaints about over-permissive moderation, the moderator would have to emulate the union of all list members' killfiles (had they ability to make their own), not their intersection. And then essentially no messages would be approved. You think I'm joking, but, e.g., back in the day I knew someone who killefiled every poster who had a surname that "sounded Armenian". And you better believe that _some_ people today would insist that _this_ message be suppressed because "killfile" evokes violence. Me, I'd consider suppressing it only because I generally find very little value in meta-posts, which this post _about_ python-dev moderation is ;-) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/OER42TVZSUC5YG6TT7TWI263UC7SYU4N/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
