I am guessing you never moderated a list before, right?
There are 2 types of list moderators. Those who see it as their job to
help people solve problems and those who think it's their job to enforce
rules. You sound like that latter type.
What you will almost certainly end up with is a slightly less wide
ranging list with a very small clihe of regular contributors. But maybe
that's what you want.
You're going to have like a dozen people answering each others very
specific questions. Once in a while, one of them will forget themselves
and ask an IOS question. They'll thinkeither forget or they'll think
they are so much a part of the in crowd that they can get away with it.
Then you'll have to smack them down and there will be a huge fight. This
pattern will repeat itself every 6 months or so.
The only alternative to being a tyrannical list moderator is to do what
the moderators of this list have done. That does have it's drawbacks,
the primary one being the high traffic.
There is no perfect solution. Life is messy. Welcome to the planet earth.
On 09/28/2015 07:16 AM, deedra waters wrote:
wow , well that makes this list even harder to try and track since it’s already
overly high traffic. well if there’s no alternative I’ll still see about
hosting something mac specific or finding a place to host one. i just dont have
the time or the patience to wade through all of the iphone topics just for the
mac ones. perhapse people should change the name of this list while they’re at
it. I know i’m being on the harsh side and i’m sorry but this does make this
list even harder to follow.
On Sep 28, 2015, at 5:02 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote:
A few weeks back, people were asking about posting anything related to Apple
accessibility since so many products are so linked nowadays. The reasoning was
that--with iTunes syncing, Handoff, keyboard commands on iOS, iCloud Drive
documents, and so on--all Apple products are so linked that it was too
restrictive to refuse messages about iOS/Apple TV/watchOS. The mods agreed, and
thus the list's topics expanded. I'm not saying this is good or bad, just
telling you why it happened.
On Sep 28, 2015, at 07:56, deedra waters <dee...@the-brannons.com> wrote:
If there is no response to this question/there is no alternative ml I will
happily find a place to host one. Moderators this topic really does not sit
well with me because of the fact that this appears to no longer be a mac list.
after all this isn’t viphone.:P
On Sep 28, 2015, at 4:47 AM, Nicolai Svendsen <chojiro1...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi!
I would be curious of this as well. It does say that this list is the home of
the blind Mac user community, so that it has degenerated into a list with so
many topics regarding iOS is strange to me, especially since we have
moderators. The description doesn't reflect iOS anywhere, though, and if both
are allowed now the description should probably be changed. The name is rather
misleading, but clearly, posting iOS-related discussions is OK here.
Of course, that makes things a little confusing since this is Macvisionaries
after all.
Nicolai
On 9/28/2015 2:19 AM, deedra waters wrote:
Is there another ml that’s more mac related? it seems this list has degenerated
into an ios mailing list andand i would like one that provides mac support only.
BTW why do people send mail for a ios device to this list? I’ve deleted some
1400 messages from this folder and a lot of it is ios related so if anyone
knows of one i would appreciate info on an ml for macs not ios.
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