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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Recent Discussions and more... |
| Date: |
10/18/2007 12:10:00 PM |
| From: |
Patrick Weber |
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Jaime
if you want to moderate this forum, than there will be no traffic at all
anymore, its quite dead anyway. I havent seen any volume of spam or
whatever you want to consider spam that would have offended me. So its
fine as it is.
Jaime Bozza wrote:
> With the recent thread regarding "cracked" software, I wanted to open up
> a discussion regarding this list with respect to moderation and general
> policies. I'd like to work toward some more formal policies for the
> list without infringing on the ability to post opinions and thoughts
> that may not necessarily be agreeable to all. Obviously, there are a
> lot of different people on this list with many different levels of skill
> and I think that will always allow for helpful and (at times) very
> interesting and lively discussions.
>
> First of all, I want to say that I did see the message come through and
> I specifically waited to gather reaction from list members before I did
> anything. I do *not* want to turn this list into a completely moderated
> list. Unfortunately, to stop these messages from ever being posted
> would require full moderation and I think that would start to overly
> restrict the general flow of the list and perhaps even hurt the freedom
> that has been enjoyed by this list. That being said, I have already set
> this user's access to be moderated and will not allow additional
> messages coming from this person without verifying that the content is
> appropriate. Discussions about anything illegal (software piracy and
> more) will not be tolerated and I'm sure most of the people on this list
> will agree. Personally I don't mind someone criticizing a message (and
> the person) and even having a little fun here or there, but at the same
> time I want to get people's opinions on this. How far do you think we
> should go to moderate threads such as these and the list in general?
> What subjects and types of messages do you think should be allowed or
> disallowed?
>
> For instance, what are your thoughts about any of these:
>
> 1) Obvious sales-type messages. For instance, a list poster that's an
> owner of a software company that replies to each message attempting to
> sell their particular software product.
>
> 2) Obvious marketing or advertising messages. For instance, events
> (including coursework or seminars) that require a fee to attend, with
> the intent to freely advertise to the people on the list.
>
> 3) Job postings, press releases, or anything else that is posted by a
> company that is marketing or advertising only for that company and
> doesn't generally offer any type of real discussion.
>
>
> Also, I've followed many of the discussions about what specifically this
> list should discuss. For instance, specific help on products (ESRI or
> otherwise) - Do you feel this is an appropriate forum? Should this be a
> list more for general discussions and not specific product support?
> Would
>
> I've also seen people recommend using Google or some other product to
> transform a list into something more of a discussion board. How do you
> feel about discussion boards compared to old-style mailing lists? Do
> you prefer one over the other? Do you think a discussion board with
> topics and threads would work better?
>
> I'm open to any ideas and thoughts, so feel free to speak your mind!
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Jaime Bozza
> MindSites Group, LLC
>
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