Re: [GZG] List moderation

All you girls play nice and quit crying.  Neither party has done more
than talk and neither seems upset at all about the personal level of
their being called out.  If you don't like the tone, ignore the thread.

Bob Makowsky

----- Original Message ----
From: Tom B <kaladorn@gmail.com>
To: gzg-l@vermouth.csua.berkeley.edu
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 9:41:21 AM
Subject: Re: [GZG] List moderation

My 0.02 Credits:

1. Not in favour of a web forum at all. I'm a digest reader and
infinitely (yes, infinitely!) prefer email. I can scan 4 digests of
differing threads in a few minutes, something a web forum wouldn't
conveniently let me do. I can pretty much gaurantee that I'll fall off
the list (and so may some others) if we went to forum format. And
forums and digests are not terribly compatible AFAIK.

2. Moderation: I have always believed the best moderation is stopping
reading a post or thread whose tone you don't like. It is as effective
at ending discussions from a reader's perspective as moderation.
Moderation inevitably involves warnings, responses, and then
justifications and so on. I find that as tiresome as listening to
posters being tiresome (which I can easily just skip past). That's
only a personal view, but it is how I feel about it.

3. Sometimes immoderate responses are still useful and replete with
information. One might wish they were phrased more politely from time
to time, but you rarely improve the situation with bans and that
certainly never encourages the guilty parties to reform from what I've
seen.

So, mark me down as a nay-sayer both on web forum and moderation. I've
been on this list since I think about 1995-1996 time frame and its had
better and worse days (frankly, if I had moderation, I'd have to ask
sheep references be moderated out of existence....) and it is still
better than most. This and the TML are the only two internet lists I
bother with.

Thomas B.
www.stargrunt.ca's other half

-- 
"Now, I go to spread happiness to the rest of the station. It is a
terrible responsibility but I have learned to live with it."
Londo, A Voice in the Wilderness, Part I

"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like
administering medicine to the dead." -- Thomas Paine

Thomas Paine

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