On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 10:49 AM Robert Vanden Eynde <robertv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> About moderation, what's the problem on the list ? > The biggest moderation issue I see with mailing lists is the inability to lock threads and delete posts (i.e. those that are spam or a Code of Conduct violation). Both of those are basic features that are core to virtually every forum system in existence today. Mailing lists offer no moderation of posts or threads unless every post is held in a moderation queue and manually approved before being sent, which isn't practical for large high-traffic lists like this. Instead, the only recourse is to moderate the user by banning or muting them, which can sometimes result in essentially using a sledgehammer to kill a fly. That is particularly the case if the only problems are on one heated thread where five people are attacking each other, but all are contributing constructively to other threads, in which case the best response is to simply terminate the argument by locking the thread. But on a mailing list, one would have to ban or mute all five users instead, impacting all of the other threads those users were contributing to.
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