Re: [libreoffice-users] in response ...

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.kantoor@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


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