From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-04-15T14:40:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Who maintains ruby-talk?

On 14.04.2010 22:10, H- 16 wrote:
> You know, just my two cents but I've been on several forum sites with
> moderators.
>
> All the things you're worried about, just plain doesn't exsist if you
> have the right people as moderators. People who really care about the
> site.

I prefer a situation where everybody in the community cares and feels 
responsible.

> And it seems to me that you are thinking of only one mod. Why not have
> more? Any mod who misuses his power can be brough back into line by the
> others.

Frankly, I do like the connotation of this: "misuse of power", "bring 
back in line" etc.  I don't think we need a government in here what 
decides about what may be said and what not.

> And if someone who is kicked shouldn't have been, one can always go back
> and lift the ban.
>
> There's no real harm in having a mod and there's lots to gain... just
> look at thunk!

My stance is this: I do feel zero pain with regard to spam.  I checked 
my GMail account and there are 6 emails in the last 30 days that I have 
or the spam filter has marked spam.  I can easily ignore threads and the 
bandwidth is only relevant for Google (btw, SMTP should make just one 
copy of every mail to all GMail accounts subscribed travel the net).

Also, I do not consider recent traffic as spam: apparently there was 
enough interest in the community to discuss this.  So even with 
moderation enabled these messages would have made it into everybody's 
inboxes.

On the contrary, moderation not only slows things down but it also has a 
different effect: the community delegates maintaining a healthy biotope 
to moderators.  I prefer the current solution where everybody is 
responsible for balancing things out.  I think it has worked out 
remarkably well in the last years and I do not really see a major 
degradation.

I haven't see a compelling reason why we should have moderation now.  As 
long as that has not changed I am strongly against moderation.

Kind regards

	robert

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