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

[Andrew R. Kelly]

This is a rock-solid response.  Therefore I fully expect a rebuttal :(.  We
(meaning my small band of drupaleers) enjoy this list and in fact promote it
as a feature of Drupal in our value points to clients as we battle
commercial software packages.  If a prospect decides to look under the hood
and stumbles onto threads like we've had recently that won't be pretty.

C'mon folks let's keep our eyes on the target - building Drupal market share
one gig at a time, using the power of community to combat commercial
solutions.

Thx Adam.

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: consulting-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:consulting-bounces at drupal.org]
On Behalf Of Adam Mordecai
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 9:22 AM
To: A list for Drupal consultants and Drupal service/hosting providers
Cc: sami.khan at etopian.com
Subject: Re: [consulting] Suggestion for Dries and Moderators: New Politics
List

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

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