On Wed Feb 01 2017 14:20:18 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time), toki <[email protected]> wrote: > The theory, supported by research, is that active moderator > participation, results in a reduction in participation by list members, > with the highest impact being amongst the low-frequency posters.
Link(s) please? Regardless, you do know that using identities, it would be entirely achievable for a moderator to interact on the list and 99% of the list participants wouldn;t know they were the same person. > Well, no. Well, yes. > What happens when the moderator is an active participant on > the list, is that their messages tend to be seen as "authoritative" by > people who can browse list messages. Only if they are posting as the moderator. If they post as a simple participant, then most won't even know they are a moderator. > One side effect, is that questioning information provided by the list > moderator becomes difficult/awkward. Not at all, as long as they are civil, and the moderator can hold their god complex in check. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
