Ideal moderation, for me (and perhaps this isn't even possible; I'm not sure
how the backends of these mailing lists work) would be directed at users,
not individual emails. I wouldn't expect a moderator to approve every post,
or to edit posts, or anything like that. But I would expect them to
Hmmm, interesting. I've often wondered whether I would have had a less
pleasant experience fitting into the wiki(p|m)edia IRC channels if I had an
obviously-gendered nick. As it is, I get maybe one random pm a month, if
that, and most of those are of the vague hi-followed-by-silence sort.
None
Just for the record: I am in possession of a full set of female genitalia,
and I think Carol's tone was aggressive and very clearly represented an
assumption of bad faith. Accusing other editors of AfDing articles because
of some crypto-misogyny plan they're secretly pursing, especially editors
Carol, I know you feel aggrieved in this situation, but I would ask you to
please consider stepping away from this conversation. This conversation is
making the list look like it's populated not by gendergap closers, but
nasty people who enjoy being nasty for the sake of feeling special. And
that
It's two very different issues to argue about a) whether dirty word DYKs
drive off women (I'm on record on Jimbo's talk as thinking that's silly),
and b) whether dirty word DYKs are puerile and not as good a type of joke
as we should be doing, if we want to do jokes (which appears to be
basically
