On 07.04.2017 01:20, John Hart wrote: > Why do moderators of this list allow malicious posters to ruin it's > effectiveness?
John, Please do not blame the moderators. The posts you are referring to in this thread come from list subscribers and moderators only get to see these posts at the same time as you and other subscribers receive them. It is only possible for moderators to take any action that can be taken after the posts have reached the list. Moderators do contact subscribers (normally off-list) about posts which contravene the list List Conduct Guidelines: https://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html In this instance I would request both Jim and Larry to please read and take note of those guidelines. I suspect that you might be suggesting some kind of immediate ban on posters who breach the guidelines. By their very nature, such decisions to ban would be very subjective and arbitrary, plus the PMC has not endowed list moderators with this authority. While I do not disagree with your sentiments regarding inappropriate posts damaging the list's effectiveness, there is no proactive action moderators can take to prevent these "flame wars" from ever starting. Regards Dave -- Please address any reply to the mailing list only. Any messages sent to this noreply@ address are automatically deleted from the server and will never be read.
