On 25/01/2016 2:45 PM, Oliver Keyes wrote:
I disagree, and would argue that fails to take a systemic view of this
kind of behaviour.
If individual commentators are acerbic and are only privately
reprimanded, from the perspective of everyone else it looks like the
acerbic reply was A-OK. Someone said something unnecessarily hostile
and the response was...nada. That creates an environment where there
are no clear examples of what crosses a line and no clear expectation
that moderation is even a thing that happens. Indeed, I was shocked to
discover this list _was_ moderated precisely because all I see is
people being mean and nothing much else happening.
Why would you bother to read it if that's all you see? I think there
are examples of posts here which are not at all helpful, and others
which are rude, but the majority are actually helpful (even some of the
rude ones).
Duncan Murdoch
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