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Subject: Re: Moderation policy

Author: Peter W. Gillgasch

Date: 21:12:33 09/21/98

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On September 21, 1998 at 12:45:17, Don Beal wrote:

...

>I say we should accept their decisions.  All their decisions.
>And stop trying to write down rules for their actions.  And
>they should act silently.
>
>Debating the decisions is re-introducing the problem that the
>existence of the moderators solves.
>
>However, moderators should be acccountable, so I do have one
>suggestion.  If Steve and Tim can do it, I suggest all deleted
>posts go into an archive that can be inspected by any reader.
>Then anyone concerned that the moderators are censoring legitimate
>posts, or acting inappropriately, can judge for themselves.
>
>The moderators should seek votes of confidence occasionally.
>With this in place, debates on moderator decisions should be
>regarded as off-topic (although comment about a decision could
>still be accepted at the discretion of the moderators).
>
>Don Beal.

I agree with this, especially with the "archive" part. I simply
don't read threads with have gone south and suddenly there is
a huge noise and half of the readership got booted :) and you
can't find out *why*.

-- Peter



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