> > Hi, > > I looking for ways to moderate a mailinglist distributed. > Distributed as: serveral people do the job (not a job > for a single person) > > Goal is a healthy (mailinglist) community. > > > Vision I have for a healthy ML is like nice village > that is becoming a nice town. Citizens are aware it > is their own habitat and it is their interrest to keep > in a good shape. > > > Normal situation is lively communication on the ML. > > In abnormal situations gets toxic into the ML. > That is what should be prevented. > > > ML software can easily block non-subscriber postings. > > Software I'm looking for can delay postings based > upon reputation from a subscriber. The delay allows > the pool of moderators to review such posting. > > Posting of subscriber with establish repuation > go through without a delay. It skips "review queue" > > New subcribers will recieve postings. Their first > posting gets a delay of N minutes. > > The delay has a time-out. If no-one approved a posting > from the review queue, the posting goes through the ML. > Such "time-out-expired posting" tells that the pool of > moderators is too small. > > > Please share your idea of such mailinglist features. >
Foo is a placeholder We are familiar with a mailinglist like f...@lists.doman.tld Subscribe, Unsubscribe and other user requests go to foo-requ...@lists.domain.tld For the pool of moderators there is foo-rev...@lists.domain.tld where they can sent there approval (or disapproval) of postings that need review. Q: Which postings need review? A: Postings of subscribers without a established reputation. Q: How will moderators be informed about a posting needing review? A: By email from the mailinglist software at server. The moderator sends her/his judgement as a reply to foo-rev...@lists.domain.list ML S/W then distributes the posting to the whole ML (or drops the posting (like spam)) Moderators volunteer themself for the task and listmaster configures that at ML S/W. These are human actions by design. Q: Will a moderator see postings twice? A: Mostly no. Some, yes, the postings of reputation below threshold. Q: What about the regular ML subscribers? A: Yes, regular citizens. Regards Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse