moderation. was: The New Face of Ubuntu

[Ric Moore]

On 02/24/2012 11:45 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> 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.

Kinda like herding cats, huh?? :) Ric