From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2010-04-15T02:41:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Who maintains ruby-talk?

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:27 PM, jonty <jontyjont@btinternet.com> wrote:
> I have just rescanned my ruby-talk inbox folder - I can't see any'off topic'
> threads,
>
> what do you mean by off-topic?
>
> There is a wide variety of discussions, many of which I feel free to ignore
> but because there is no further filtering I often find myself drawn in to an
> interesting discussion that improves my programming practice.
>
> Are you being a little narrow minded?
>
>
I feel that you are unfair here, it might come as a surprise to some
but I am actually with Tony here. Kind of self protection, because in
a free list it is me who has to decide if someone is a troll, in
distress  or not. Sometimes I also decide to make a joke because I
feel the list is just boring. If it were moderated I would not need to
make those decisions, in the first place and I would not see gross
language anymore neither.
Ok I agree that we will lose something, but maybe this something
should be elsewhere.
As a poster and quite nonconformist I will always step on some folk's
toe. If there were a moderator I probably could not.
But I am very much interested in arguments here, maybe I idealize what
I do not really know: A moderated list.
Thaughts?
Cheers
R.



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