From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2010-04-15T09:08:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Who maintains ruby-talk?

Justin Collins wrote:

> 
> I am not even sure moderation is a technical possibility. "ruby-talk" is 
> actually an amalgam of a Google user group, a forum, and a mailing list, 
> all of which are different systems run by different people.
> 
> Spam is handled decently already. If a thread is off-topic, the 
> community should be able to take care of it or ignore it, letting it die 
> a natural death.


Exactly correct.

My off-the-top-of-my recollection of annoying threads is that a good 
deal of the longevity rests with people who continue to engage the 
original poster.

If some proposed moderator is going to ban people responsible for junk 
postings, will they also boot people who feed the trolls?  They're 
responsible for the noise problem as well.

Rather than try to change the behavior of trolls and such (you won't, so 
  don't bother), how about reserving that ire for the people who 
encourage them?



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