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Re: Moderation (not!) [was: Debian is testing Discourse]



On Apr 13, 2020, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 08:23:40AM -0000, Curt wrote:
> > On 2020-04-13, <tomas@tuxteam.de> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > It is as easy to moderate a mailing list as it is a platform la
> > > discourse. So this isn't a criterion to decide between both.
> > 
> > It is, on the contrary, the *primary* criterion for the proposed change
> > as given by the primary proponent of the change:
> > 
> >  Why are you doing this?
> >  I have two motivations. First, is moderation. Discourse has built in
> >  tools to allow community moderation on a much better scale than our
> >  email lists.
> 
> This one is surprising to me. Why should community moderation be
> easier for discourse?

Probably because it follows the "benevolent dictator" style moderation
similar to web fora / IRC as opposed to the "you're (generally)
responsible for your own moderation" style that is prevalent in Usenet
and mailing lists.

> 
> But I'm just a dumb C programmer :-)

I prefer C over C-post-increment myself :)  (not that I'm any good at
it).



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