As a Point of Information to Fr. Ruffino's post below
There are two ways of technically moderating an email list of this kind
There can be a technical moderator -- this involves all posts to the
list being allowed on the list ONLY AFTER approval of the moderator.
This involves alot of work as you have to read each post and either
send it back for rewrite or approve it to go out to everyone.
Good side of this is that all posts are moderate and contain no
extreme views. Downside of this is that is slows down discussions.
No one is banned from the list as no posts are allowed onto the list
before they are checked and read by the moderator and thus no
offensive ones get through.
The second technical way is to appoint a moderator who sits like a
judge on the list and reads all posts and comments on those he/she
feels to be extreme.
No posts are stopped to the net but ALL agree that the moderator's
instructions are final. So if the moderator says that your post was
offensive and you apologize then you do.
If moderator says rewrite your post with more emphasis on gender
equality then you do .. Failure to do so can result in the moderator
requesting you to be banned from the list either permanently or for a
designated period.
No postings to the list are censored and all are allowed BUT the
moderator is more like a judge of the high court ... listening to
arguments and handing out sentences where needed.
Kiggs
On May 12, 2010, at 5:32 AM, Ezama Ruffino wrote:
Dear all
On february 17, 2010 I sent this e mail on West Nile net. I would
like to get at least one answer.
Hi all
I write after reading what our brother Vasco has shared here. He
has outlined the topics which need our attention.
Can we get a volunteer to lead us in moderating for some weeks and
then we start another topic?
When we get a volunteer to moderate, we then choose the topic to
discuss, and the moderator summarises the discussion points and we
come up with the plans of action which responsable people will have
to work on?
Otherwise emotional ping pong leads us no where. Many people on
this forum are following what we are saying. Lets proceed orderly.
In any debate there is always Proposition and opposiion sides but
there is need of a chairpersonto moderate
Ruffino
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