On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 2:37 PM Jonathan Goble <jcgob...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018, 2:00 PM Franklin? Lee <leewangzhong+pyt...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 11:02 AM Jonathan Goble <jcgob...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > 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. >> >> Is that really an issue here? I personally haven't seen threads where >> Brett tried to stop an active discussion, but people ignored him and >> kept fighting. > > > Perhaps not, but part of that might be because stopping an active discussion > on a mailing list can be hard to do, so one might not even try. Some > discussions, I suspect, may have gone on in circles long past the point where > they would have been locked on a forum. With forum software, it becomes much > easier, and would be a more effective tool to terminate discussions that are > going nowhere fast and wasting everyone's time.
But there's no evidence that such tools would help. Software enforcement powers are only necessary if verbal enforcement isn't enough. We need the current moderators (or just Brett) to say whether they feel it isn't enough. What people may really be clamoring for is a larger moderation team, or a heavier hand. They want more enforcement, not more effective enforcement. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
