Inappropriate tone on this mailing list and requirement for governance

[M. Fioretti]

On Wed, May 06, 2009 11:51:46 AM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote:
> Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > In a discussion i had with one of the administrators we came to the
> > conclusion that a governance team should be put in place taking the
> > administrator role for it, consisting of people actively participating
> > in the list and functioning similar to the IRC council [3] we already
> > have in place for our IRC channels.
> 
> Why not just this list + another "moderated" one?

because in that case only trolls and unaware first time posters would
come and stay on this list, whereas everybody else would either just
leave or stick to the moderated list?

There is no amount of technical settings or burocracy/overorganization
(because that's what multiple lists would look like to me) that can
fix for good bad manners or just generally clueless behavior.

Personally, if this list can't keep going as it always did, I'd
suggest to keep only this list, with a clear policy and a team which
**does** remove posters who deliberately continue to violate the
policy.

Marco Fioretti
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