Charles, one can only admire your patience, but isn't it time to put a stop to this nonsense with anne-ology (who I'm sure is not the delightful Maureen, despite her use of the "-ology" suffix).
Who has the authority to remove her from the moderator role, for which she seems singularly un-qualified? On 02/02/17 13:51, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > Anne-ology, > > You are right, that is the general meaning of moderation. However, when > we talk about moderation here, we talk about mailing list moderation. > When we talk about moderator, we refer to a mailing list moderator, not > to concepts such as panel moderators. A mailing list moderator has a > specific role, which somewhat relates to the one of a moderator but is > much more strict: it has been described a bit earlier but let me restate > it: A mailing list moderator is in charge of the management of the > mailing list. This role mostly includes moderating emails, which means: > - finding legitimate emails of posters who are not subscribed to the > mailing list and moderating them as in publishing them to the list (NOT > REPLYING TO THEM FIRST) > - rejecting incoming illegitimate emails, such as spam. > > Another role of the list moderator usually (but not always) involves: > - adding or unsubscribing email addresses per request of their owner > - helping mailing list subscribers with similar tasks or technical > issues directly related to their mailing list subscription > - reminding everyone to be courteous > - following the netiquette (http://www.netiquette.org) and reminding > mailing list subscribers to comply with it. > > Among all these points only the last two may relate somewhat more the > broader meaning of "moderation". > > In short your daily task is not one moderation but rather one of > technical management. It also implies that you know how to post properly > and understand the concept of mailing list discussion threads. From my > perspective it seems you are not familiar with the concept,or that you > perhaps have no desire to become acquainted with these notions which > would be problematic for a mailing list moderator. Hence, there is no > need to "clean" any "cruft from an email. Signs, mentions of date, time, > etc. in an email are part of its information and may form a part of the > thread. We need that. I notice you have managed to start a new thread > "Re: [libreoffice-users] in response ..." that is not integrated with > the original thread. This is not correct and you seem to do this for > each one of your reply. > > Below is one page belonging to another community that may be helpful to > you: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > Hope this helps, > > Charles > (who, by top-posting, does not comply to the netiquette). > > > > Le 02.02.2017 01:56, anne-ology a écrit : >> Do you know what moderation means? >> >> >> moderation := "the avoidance of excess or extremes, especially in >> one's behavior or political opinions" >> >> >> >> From: toki <toki.kant...@gmail.com> >> Date: Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 9:40 PM >> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] in response ... >> To: >> Cc: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org> >> >> >> On 01/31/2017 01:54 PM, Tom Davies wrote: >> >>> It is not always possible to "do the right thing" so it is good that >> >> The correct thing is to _approve_ the message, not _respond_ within the >> message. As such, it is _always_ possible to do the right thing. >> >> That is basic moderation 101 >> >> jonathon > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
