On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 4:10 PM Florian Weimer <f...@deneb.enyo.de> wrote: > > * Carlos O'Donell: > > > I placed the list on moderation to help with cooling down heated > > discussions. It is entirely within the normal bounds of list > > management to use moderation. > > It's actually very unusual to see this on technical/FOSS lists. Some > communities have secret and not-so-secret bans for individual users, > but switching entire lists to pre-moderation is not something that > I've seen often, not even during periods of intense conflict.
I don't have enough data to say if it's rare or not. The GNU C Library main development list was pre-moderated for almost 5 years. During that period we moved a lot of conversations to the glibc help mailing list using moderation. This helped new users get started in a more welcoming environment. Just an example of a public technical FOSS list that used moderation. Most people didn't know it was pre-moderated. In this case the intent was to keep the conversations on topic for the list in question as documented for gnu-misc-discuss: https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss (which I didn't write). Cheers, Carlos.
