Hi,
I looking for ways to moderate a mailinglist distributed.
Distributed as: serveral people do the job (not a job
for a single person)
Goal is a healthy (mailinglist) community.
Vision I have for a healthy ML is like nice village
that is becoming a nice town. Citizens are aware it
is their own habitat and it is their interrest to keep
in a good shape.
Normal situation is lively communication on the ML.
In abnormal situations gets toxic into the ML.
That is what should be prevented.
ML software can easily block non-subscriber postings.
Software I'm looking for can delay postings based
upon reputation from a subscriber. The delay allows
the pool of moderators to review such posting.
Posting of subscriber with establish repuation
go through without a delay. It skips "review queue"
New subcribers will recieve postings. Their first
posting gets a delay of N minutes.
The delay has a time-out. If no-one approved a posting
from the review queue, the posting goes through the ML.
Such "time-out-expired posting" tells that the pool of
moderators is too small.
Please share your idea of such mailinglist features.
Foo is a placeholder
We are familiar with a mailinglist like foo@lists.doman.tld
Subscribe, Unsubscribe
and other user requests go to foo-request@lists.domain.tld
For the pool of moderators there is foo-review@lists.domain.tld
where they can sent there approval (or disapproval) of postings
that need review.
Q: Which postings need review?
A: Postings of subscribers without a established reputation.
Q: How will moderators be informed about a posting needing review?
A: By email from the mailinglist software at server.
The moderator sends her/his judgement as a reply
to foo-review@lists.domain.list
ML S/W then distributes the posting to the whole ML
(or drops the posting (like spam))
Moderators volunteer themself for the task and listmaster
configures that at ML S/W. These are human actions by design.
Q: Will a moderator see postings twice?
A: Mostly no. Some, yes, the postings of reputation below threshold.
Q: What about the regular ML subscribers?
A: Yes, regular citizens.
Regards
Geert Stappers