[consulting] Suggestion for Dries and Moderators: New Politics List

[Adam Mordecai]

Yea, hilariously, last night I wrote an extremely rude email in response to Sami's really rude email, and it got moderated (due to size limitations) and I've cancelled it this morning because it didn't further the conversation, just made me feel better.

Alex I've joined your group and will gladly track down people who might want or be able to support it. These kinds of emails suggesting resources and tangible things you can do are exactly the kind of thing that DO add to the conversation. 

Again what I meant to say by moderation wasn't that every post has to be approved, just that when the discussion gets way out in the weeds a moderator can chime in with best practices and resources and ask people to move it off list. Then if someone continues to disregard that, they could be put on probation or booted if they can't play well with others. Sami posted 48 different emails this month to the list (18% of total list traffic) only around 8 of which actually were not related to the original political thread and about consulting. I just think a little common sense and respect for other people's time would make things work better around here.


On Aug 23, 2010, at 2:22 AM, Alex Rollin wrote:

Hi Adam,

I'd like to add in that I was inspired by the conversation to go do
documentation about how Drupal Workers could form a cooperative.

http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-worker-cooperative

We've had a number of folks join the group and I hope you will, too.

I don't think that prohibiting all "organizing related" traffic is
your intention with moderation.

It's still permitted to link link link(?):
http://groups.drupal.org/drupal-worker-cooperative

Linking this within the list is appropriate, no?  To post links about
discussions on GDO that we see as relevant but tangential, yes?

Perhaps, then, if this is okay, then what we have here is a bit of
etiquette.  You can use the list to link to tangential and relevant
things on GDO?

Then it is up to everyone else to hold back the impulse to jump in and
make the thread grow.  Instead, head over to the link?  Can we
self-moderate around something like this?

Alex