Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-25 Thread Thomas Morton
There was a 30 post per person monthly soft limit on foundation-l. My apologies; I was unaware of this soft limit. Happy to abide by it :) and I hope others will too! And, so, this should be my last post for this month. FWIW I entirely agree that less vocal posters may be put off by large

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-25 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote: I think people who think have got the point, but we still have to whack the mole at trolls and endless griefers. I'm also annoyed at being characterised in this way by someone who has maintained only the

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-25 Thread Andreas K.
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote: There was a 30 post per person monthly soft limit on foundation-l. My apologies; I was unaware of this soft limit. Happy to abide by it :) and I hope others will too! And, so, this should be my last

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-25 Thread David Gerard
On 25 October 2011 17:52, Andreas K. jayen...@gmail.com wrote: For those interested, there is a current request for arbitration on English Wikipedia related to the board resolution on controversial content, which contains some further views and discussion. I have summarised my view that our

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-25 Thread Mateus Nobre
: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:55:26 +0100 From: dger...@gmail.com To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit On 25 October 2011 17:52, Andreas K. jayen...@gmail.com wrote: For those interested, there is a current request for arbitration on English

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-25 Thread Andreas K.
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:55 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 October 2011 17:52, Andreas K. jayen...@gmail.com wrote: For those interested, there is a current request for arbitration on English Wikipedia related to the board resolution on controversial content, which

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-22 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: This is very very meta. But in my own defence, I haven't posted anything for over a year. Mourning my dearly departed mother. I have

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-21 Thread Milos Rancic
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 04:19, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: Somehow David Gerard, Milos Rancic, Kim and Tobias Oelgarte made it to 96, 95, 89 and 83 posts last month.  Last month Thomas Dalton, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen and I posted 39, 37 and 35 times respectively, and everyone else

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-21 Thread Andrew Garrett
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonav...@gmail.com wrote: This is very very meta. But in my own defence, I haven't posted anything for over a year. Mourning my dearly departed mother. I have said before that monthly limits are prejudicial against those that rarely

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-21 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 21 October 2011 16:02, Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.org wrote: These discussions have gone in circles for a month now, and it's the same five or ten people (yes, I am again being rhetorical, please don't bother checking that number) arguing past each other and posting their entrenched

[Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-20 Thread John Vandenberg
topic was: Re: [Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Andreas K. jayen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 7:19 PM, David Levy lifeisunf...@gmail.com wrote: Andreas Kolbe wrote: Whether to add a media file to an article or

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-20 Thread Jon Davis
IIRC, They said that the soft limit would simply mean that they'd make sure any post beyond 30 were at least somewhat useful. The impression I got was that if you wanted to send 100 at least semi-constructive emails, you'd get through. If you want to flame and flame and flame ... you'd get cut at

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-20 Thread John Vandenberg
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Jon Davis w...@konsoletek.com wrote: IIRC, They said that the soft limit would simply mean that they'd make sure any post beyond 30 were at least somewhat useful. The impression I got was that if you wanted to send 100 at least semi-constructive emails, you'd

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-20 Thread Kirill Lokshin
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:34 PM, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Jon Davis w...@konsoletek.com wrote: IIRC, They said that the soft limit would simply mean that they'd make sure any post beyond 30 were at least somewhat useful. The impression I got