-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I just wanted to reply to this with my thinking. I think each list is somewhat a community in that people read the messages every morning or whenever they can, reply and get something out of it. You give and take when you have questions is the way I see this working out. Much like a community, sometimes there are certain people who just want to make the experience bad for everyone involved. Right now this occurs pretty much unchecked. There is a good balance here: not overly moderating verses stepping in when things get messy. I think that it's pretty easy to forget there's someone on the other side of your message when we write. I don't plan on dropping the banhammer on the first person to ever step over the line, I just want to try to help control and regulate so that the people that are currently getting responded to with curses and fowel language don't have to be, because that does not really foster a good community.
the only reason currently this list is like this is because there is not anyone willing to step in and moderate. We usually go from one extreme to the other: someone is usually overly tyrannical in moderation, or they just don't moderate altogether, thus leaving us to decay until the return. I hope this explains my purpose better. Please feel free to let me know if you have questions. Thanks, On 8/26/2015 7:45 AM, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: > Hello Pam, I'll try to answer your questions. the new list does > have a digest mode, which you can set if you sign up through the > website. > > The second part of your email (or first, really) is more the > reason why I created the list. Right now, anyone can do pretty much > anything with no backlash from administration. This solves this > problem. We can rework the rules as necessary (what's there is a > pretty good start) and those can be enforced. I don't plan on just > vanishing on you fine folks to leave you to deal with the problems > by yourself. I will also be appointing a moderator at some point > soon to help deal with it, should I happen to get hit by a bus or > get sick. > > Thanks, On 8/26/2015 5:53 AM, Pamela Francis wrote: >> Hello, I have a list question. First, as helpful as this list >> has been through the years, there are times it does disintegrate >> into childish arguments. How is creating another list going to >> alleviate that issue?Second, does this list have a digest mowed >> therefore cutting down on the traffic? I belong to a testing >> group. I have to be able to keep up with those emails as well as >> whatever comes from any other list I follow. Not really sure that >> I want to leave it, given the fact there are so very many helpful >> people here. However I have to be able to minimize the traffic in >> order to keep up with the testing emails I need get. Thanks in >> advance. > >> Pam Francis > >> On Aug 25, 2015, at 10:29 PM, Littlefield, Tyler >> <ty...@tysdomain.com> wrote: > >> Hello all: I understand there's been a lot of mess on this list >> and at least two people I know of have left--that's not counting >> however many vanished without saying anything. > >> I believe this is a great community and I don't want to see it >> die off or fall under the issues it has been. I understand a lot >> of us (this includes me) are at fault to one extreme or another. > >> To this end and to try to preserve this community, I've started >> a new list. I'd like to welcome everyone to join. Regardless of >> past posts here and anything else, we start with a clean slate. >> There are a set of well-defined rules; if you join and see >> something that needs to be edited/added, please do let me know. >> Similarly, if you have questions, please get in touch with me. > >> I will be the only moderator at present until everything is >> soarted out, then I'd like to get someone else involved. I'll >> probably be putting that call out shortly. > >> My personal address is ty...@tysdomain.com for any questions. >> Also, the list information is as follows: Subscribers can join >> the list by sending email to macvisionaries-requ...@freelists.org >> with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by visiting the list >> page at http://www.freelists.org/list/macvisionaries > >> I hope that this will help. Plese feel free to get in touch with >> me. > > > - -- Take care, Ty twitter: @sorressean web:http://tysdomain.com pubkey: http://tysdomain.com/files/pubkey.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJV3aiqAAoJEAdP60+BYxejX0sH/jQDs/w7B56VT5P8td0yjYOv 0W67hcGqW8gq6AW8vn6av+HlHintlMV5DHzXRlsq1wU2GL07tSHGvI9gLmbnrrLd 3ws22YFdUlIWwQJ45t7Wn7HBzA2RC+x8WXZv/cz2UGYfXY9eRF7eTGKDp9lD/wGS UNJYjfonnvGKj0YsDa/r5eiPkRstegL5TLuP4Ko0M2FUIl86OuilONqRMapyVQ0R wCeInz7zFR/xP+oin0GT/8bn3j48QnhJj4Rg6WVRW3nuyVbeIUJdvB6Erhb+Z3TF o8VcOPqGmW+2xVayhjvUFi0VYHtvPyN5Pfe42dCFuQzLUy6EIZJe5JbA+Xu3QBw= =RZLl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
