Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-25 Thread Andreas K.
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:55 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 25 October 2011 17:52, Andreas K. wrote: > > > For those interested, there is a current request for arbitration on > English > > Wikipedia related to the board resolution on controversial content, which > > contains some further views and

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-25 Thread Mateus Nobre
media projects (+55) 85 88393509 30440865 > Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:55:26 +0100 > From: dger...@gmail.com > To: foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit > > On 25 October 2011 17:52, Andreas K. wrote: > > > For tho

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-25 Thread David Gerard
On 25 October 2011 17:52, Andreas K. wrote: > For those interested, there is a current request for arbitration on English > Wikipedia related to the board resolution on controversial content, which > contains some further views and discussion. I have summarised my view that > our illustrations, j

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-25 Thread Andreas K.
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Thomas Morton wrote: > > > > There was a 30 post per person monthly "soft" limit on foundation-l. > > > > My apologies; I was unaware of this soft limit. > > Happy to abide by it :) and I hope others will too! And, so, this should be > my last post for this month.

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-25 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Thomas Morton wrote: > >> I think people who think have got the point, but we still have to "whack > the mole" at trolls and endless griefers. > > I'm also annoyed at being characterised in this way by someone who has > maintained only the barest level of civility

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-25 Thread Thomas Morton
> > There was a 30 post per person monthly "soft" limit on foundation-l. > My apologies; I was unaware of this soft limit. Happy to abide by it :) and I hope others will too! And, so, this should be my last post for this month. FWIW I entirely agree that less vocal posters may be put off by large

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-22 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Andrew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen > wrote: >> This is very very meta. But in my own defence, I haven't posted >> anything for over a year. Mourning my dearly departed mother. I have >> said before that monthly limits ar

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-21 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 21 October 2011 16:02, Andrew Garrett wrote: > These discussions have gone in circles for a month now, and it's the > same five or ten people (yes, I am again being rhetorical, please > don't bother checking that number) arguing past each other and posting > their entrenched positions again and

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-21 Thread Andrew Garrett
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote: > This is very very meta. But in my own defence, I haven't posted > anything for over a year. Mourning my dearly departed mother. I have > said before that monthly limits are prejudicial against those that > rarely post, but do post whe

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-21 Thread Milos Rancic
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 04:19, John Vandenberg wrote: > Somehow David Gerard, Milos Rancic, Kim and Tobias Oelgarte made it to > 96, 95, 89 and 83 posts last month.  Last month Thomas Dalton, > Jussi-Ville Heiskanen and I posted 39, 37 and 35 times respectively, > and everyone else was under the 3

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-20 Thread Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Kirill Lokshin wrote: > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:34 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Jon Davis wrote: >> > IIRC, They said that the "soft limit" would simply mean that they'd make >> > sure any post beyond 30 were at least somewh

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-20 Thread Kirill Lokshin
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:34 PM, John Vandenberg wrote: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Jon Davis wrote: > > IIRC, They said that the "soft limit" would simply mean that they'd make > > sure any post beyond 30 were at least somewhat useful. The impression I > got > > was that if you wanted t

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-20 Thread John Vandenberg
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Jon Davis wrote: > IIRC, They said that the "soft limit" would simply mean that they'd make > sure any post beyond 30 were at least somewhat useful. The impression I got > was that if you wanted to send 100 at least semi-constructive emails, you'd > get through. If

Re: [Foundation-l] moderation soft limit

2011-10-20 Thread Jon Davis
IIRC, They said that the "soft limit" would simply mean that they'd make sure any post beyond 30 were at least somewhat useful. The impression I got was that if you wanted to send 100 at least semi-constructive emails, you'd get through. If you want to flame and flame and flame ... you'd get cut at