[WikiEN-l] suck it wiki

Thu Jun 29 01:55:22 UTC 2006

Tony Sidaway wrote:
> On 6/28/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 6/28/06, Ryan Delaney <ryan.delaney at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 6/28/06, Nolan mccollum <nolanmccollumhotmail.com at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>> thats right i said suck it wiki your full of crap.
>>>>
>>> Uh oh. List admins went to sleep?
>> There's a difference between going to sleep and assuming good faith.
>> Remember, we don't screen everyone's posts before they go to the list.
>> Anyway, he's moderated now.
> 
> If we don't screen posts before they go to the list, that would
> explain why we've getting an incredible amount of trollish edits by
> the likes of Rgulerdem over the past month or so.

They're called "posts", Tony. If they were edits we could ammend them :)

>  However it doesn't
> explain why we *don't* get loads of off-topic borderline spam.
> Clearly there is some moderation, and the moderators are awake.

IIRC new members and non-subscribed addresses are moderated...

> But
> their standards over the past month or so have been, to say the least,
> somewhat catholic.  To the extent that I wonder why we bother running
> this list any more.  The good discussion is being relentlessly drowned
> out by idiocy.
> 

Excessive moderation only brings on cries of censorship...

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