moderation. was: The New Face of Ubuntu

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Cybe R. Wizard
<cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net> wrote:
> If there is no policy what is the job of a moderator?   ...and why?

As a moderator, I find myself wanting to answer that question, even
though it's tangential to the original thread.

I deal almost exclusively with messages that the software has rejected
already.  Almost all of it is submissions that come from non-members.
The vast majority are non-english (I see chineese, hangul, cyrillic,
and a bunch of alphabets I can't even identify), or are obvious bounce
messages, frauds, phishing or spam.  Mostly it's a non-brainer based
just on the subject line. All of the above get silently discarded.

The exceptions are reasonable Ubuntu-related English messages,
probably from members, who are sending from an email account that is
not subscribed, or messages that are larger than our size limit.  They
get a message telling them what the problem is, and advised to
subscribe/trim and resubmit.

Note how little this has to do with content, or any policy about
content other than choice of language.

Other things are possible, but exceedingly rare.

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD