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Re: Moderated posts?



Am Dienstag, 7. Oktober 2014, 09:28:51 schrieb The Wanderer:
> On 10/07/2014 at 02:58 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
> > As Don pointed out, it's the threads that have been clipped, as it
> > were, not the topics: I think it's probably just as well, as those
> > threads themselves were started by either a sockpuppet or someone who
> > had lost control of himself, and the threads were counterproductive.
> >
> > 
> >
> > So I can say, "systemd!" here,
> >
> > 
> >
> > And this post will still not be blocked.
> 
> And that's fair enough in its way. (Though it does unfairly also hit
> subthreads which were not on the same topic anymore, but I can see where
> trying to be fine-grained enough to comb out one but not the other might
> well be more trouble than it would be worth.)
> 
> But it should still be accompanied by a public announcement that such
> action is being taken, with at least a vague indication of which
> thread(s) are being so filtered - and/or a system of automated replies
> (possibly rate-limited to stymie DoS efforts) to any attempt to reply to
> such a thread, explaining the situation.
> 
> Doing such moderation silently, without comment or explanation, is just
> not cricket.

I agree with that.

I assumed there would be no moderation on the list in any way.

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