Original subject: Re: [Vo]:[OT] Moon God, Dozens of wives, and marriageable age
The original subject was off-topic. List management is not, so I've
created a new header, please keep discussion here on the subject of the header.
At 02:31 PM 12/28/2012, Mark Gibbs wrote:
If Beaty isn't willing to moderate and push the OT stuff over to
Vortex B then someone (Jed?) should seriously consider starting an
alternative list.
I'm worried about Bill.
There is an alternate list that has been used for backup when
vortex-l is down (because the service provider, eskimo.com, has often
had problems)> It's http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/vortex-l-backup
If we do set up or use an alternate list, I have some suggestions for
governance. It's kind of a special interest of mine, and I see a list
"owner" as a kind of trustee for the community, and there should be
more than one owner, for security. Owners do not have to be active,
but they should be available when needed. Active moderation would be
done by "moderators" who generally do not have the priviliege to name
or remove moderators, nor to delete the group. Moderators *may* or
*may not* have the ability to delete posts from the archive, but
would routinely have the ability to put members on moderation or to
"ban" them, subject to appeal. So moderators can warn, and can back
up a warning with action, if needed.
These are positions that require integrity and some level of skill,
but mostly the former.
