[Meta] Re: Moderation // Re: "The Case for File Swapping"

[Zach Vonler]

On 11/17/05, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at iglu.org.il> wrote:
> 2. People are friendly.

And your evidence that they are not here is a flippant response by
Randal Schwarz to some navel-gazing you couldn't even get posted on
slashdot?

> 3. Off-topic discussions are acceptable in most channels.

I take this to mean you believe your original post to have been off-topic.

> My original post was perfectly well-phrased, with many relevant links, and
> without any direct personal insult. From my understanding of the channel's
> charter it was also perfectly on-topic as almost everything (up to and
> including Buffy) is on-topic on London.pm.

So now you were on-topic?

> My response to Randal Schwartz may have seemed tactless, but it was a honest
> response, in which I advised Randal on a topic that has bothered me and many
> others in his behaviour for countless of times. Someone had to finally say
> it, and it was constructive criticism. I said it in public by choice, so
> merlyn won't be able to ignore it so easily.

"Someone had to finally say it," implies that no one has, yet you had
to say it in public so he wouldn't "ignore it so easily," suggesting
that he has ignored similar in the past?

> So making me moderated was completely uncalled for.

Incorrect.

> But moderating people is annoying
> and should be the action of last resort, after a constant pattern of abuse
> (not a few hours and E-mails of not so abusive E-mails).

Some (most?) people don't wait that long.  If one's second post to the
list identifies one as a wanker, it's time to go.

Later,
Zach