My feeling before reading this thread was that bans should be accessible to DDs somewhere but this thread has convinced me that they should be made public. I think bans should be time-limited in almost all cases, with perma-bans being very rare indeed. I don't think that ban durations should be disclosed publically or to the person banned (otherwise badly behaved people will just count down to the ban lifting before posting.)
I think if we did this we may be more inclined to suggest bans more often, or softer solutions for less egregiously bad behaviour (periods of time-delayed posting for example) which might mean manpower issues for the listmasters. In which case a seperate moderator team should be considered (superlist of listmasters?), or teams, or perhaps per-list moderator teams. I'd trust the listmasters to decide if and when they needed help. I found Charles' post about self-limiting post frequency very interesting. One of the disadvantages of the threaded model of communication is that various facets of a discussion get scattered to all the leaves which means if you have several points to make, the logical place to make them is at the leaves. This has advantages and disadvantages (not least, many duplicate leaves as the same points are raised and re-raised in sub-threads). I do like the experiments to use the wiki to maintain "position statements". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131103140633.gc9...@bryant.redmars.org
