For what it's worth, I don't think there is an easy/ideal way to set up moderation in a way that only lets certain members post with a certain tag. The bottom line is that if everybody can post, they can post everything.
However, it might be possible to filter everything with a certain keyword (and I don't even know how using those technically work), but then again we can at most send *all* of those posts to the moderation queue, which means some moderation overhead and potential dragging of those threads. Ultimately this doesn't stop anybody to post a reply to such a thread without the keyword. Cheers, Pasi On 19/05/14 19:30, Thomas Molloy wrote: > -1 > Agreed on the mailing list being not busy, as long as a thread can be > locked to team members only that would be handy. > > - Lderan > > > Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 14:40:48 +0300 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [TEAM] Mailinglist setup > > > > On 2014-05-16 19:18, Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote: > > > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Simon Steinbeiß <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >> Hi Xubuntu team members, > > >> > > >> we started voting on Pasi's mailinglist-proposal (previously > circulated on this list [1]) in today's community meeting [2]. So far, > we haven't had enough votes for the motion to be carried or rejected, > hence I'm asking you to vote here on the mailinglist. (As the topic > isn't very controversial, I hope everyone is ok with public voting. If > not, feel free to email me.) > > >> > > >> Just reply with +1, 0 or -1 to this thread - you can obviously > also explain why you voted one or the other way. > > >> So far, we have 6 votes for the proposal and 0 against (and 0 > abstained). > > > -1 > > > > > > I don't see this devel list as actually *that* busy or that we get out > > > of hand with off-topic/flamey topics that often. Plus, it's sad when I > > > get a message from a list telling me my messages has been moderated > > > and I don't like discouraging folks from participating. > > > > > > Also not thrilled with the idea of being a judge of what's "important" > > > enough to let through, I tend to think it's nice that folks can use > > > this list to give feedback on default apps or correspond with us here > > > about bugs they find if they're having trouble using the tracker or > > > launchpad. It helps us get a pulse from our users about what they find > > > valuable enough to bring to the attention of developers, otherwise > > > they just whinge on social media and in blogs and we don't have a > > > great mechanism for collecting that data spread all over the place. > > > > I understand and empathize these comments to a certain degree. > > > > I do agree that the list itself isn't very high traffic, however, the > > amount of offtopic messages in percent is, as I see it, too high. This > > only doesn't take my (and others') time from contributing, it also > > distracts me from ontopic messages. > > > > The possibility that people get discouraged from participating is the > > single biggest negative side of the moderating I'm suggesting. While > the > > moderating will bring some exclusivity in any case, we can help make > the > > first impression better by improving the "your mail is pending" email. > > Ultimately, all ontopic messages should get through with no problems, > > and with a good field record, people should get their moderation flag > > dropped. > > > > I guess I see the moderating in a slightly different way than you do. I > > don't really conceive it as deciding what is "important", just what is > > ontopic. Of course the decision is not always easy, but in that case, > > you should probably approve the mail. Only obviously offtopic messages > > should be declined. > > > > All that being said, and having made the proposal, I'm open for other > > options as well, as long as they enable us to cut down the > percentage of > > the offtopic messages. > > > > Finally, the moderation I'm proposing does not have to be permanent. > The > > #xfce-dev IRC channel was moderated for some time because of the amount > > of noise. They have since dropped the moderation, but the situation is > > clearly better now. If a temporary moderation period helps us get the > > results we want, it would obviously be the best solution. > > > > Cheers, > > Pasi > > > > -- > > Pasi Lallinaho (knome) » http://open.knome.fi/ > > Leader of Shimmer Project and Xubuntu » http://shimmerproject.org/ > > Graphic artist, webdesigner, Ubuntu member » http://xubuntu.org/ > > > > > > -- > > xubuntu-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel > > -- Pasi Lallinaho (knome) » http://open.knome.fi/ Leader of the Shimmer Project » http://shimmerproject.org/ Ubuntu member, Xubuntu team member » http://xubuntu.org/
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