[Foundation-l] moderate this list

Sun Aug 30 22:05:15 UTC 2009

Some people like to enumerate all the points, that other people might
take to be assumable/implied/given. This might be disparagingly
labeled as "an amazing capacity for stating the blindingly obvious".
It is a common symptom of various types of "youth".

I find the contributions of the two participants being discussed, plus
Geoffrey, to be generally unhelpful in gaining a deeper understanding
of any issue. Partially because they say nothing new, partially
because they treat the discussion more like IRC/IM than email,
partially for the other reasons already mentioned by others.

I'm going to take this opportunity to attempt to setup the username
filtering/blacklisting that many people have suggested, to see if that
drastically improves the signal/noise ratio.

I'd also be interested in how Birgitte's suggestion would work out, if
adopted by everyone here: "I wonder if no one responds to [...] for a
month how much he will continue to post."

Quiddity

On 8/30/09, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Anders Wennersten <
>> anders.wennersten at bonetmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am for the moment active in some 15 wikimedia mailgroups. I have
>>> compared the working on foundation-l with internal-l for instance and
>>> find that almost the same topics are up with very much the same people
>>> and arguments, but where on internal a complicated issue can take 20-30
>>> mails whereafter often some type a consensus is reached , I find on
>>> foundation-l some 200-300 mail in the same subject with no firm
>>> conclusion.
>>
>>
>> I'm sure you'd find the same sort of thing if you compared a town hall
>> meeting in North Korea with a town hall meeting in New Hampshire.  I
>> wouldn't take very much comfort in that.
>>
>
> Anthony,
>
> I'm not sure they ever have community meetings of any sort in North
> Korea, but generally a New England town meeting is a lot like Wikipedia.
> People who have a long history of being unconstructive blowhards are
> generally ignored.
>
> Fred
>
>
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