Re: [DIYbio] Re: Moderators of this list

This list has a pretty good signal:noise ratio, and if it stays that way
generally then keep doing what's done. But cars are pretty safe until
other cars ram them, too. If someone(s) start making the list an
unfriendly place, then it falls to the mods to maintain the normally
high-signal, high-friendly quotient by intervening.

There is more to this than the noise:signal ratio in our inboxes,
though; I could easily add filters to my mail client (and do so often
enough, especially WRT to cypherpunks list..), but if someones are
posting public defamations on the list then it's harmful to them no
matter whether or not it affects my mail experience.

Now, public defamation is the risk you take for allowing free
discussion, especially of difficult topics. But if it becomes clear that
recourse is being sought and official or conventional channels are
agreed upon by both sides as in this case.. then the continued use of
the list for either or both sides to continue a catfight is no longer,
in my view, something worth enduring.

Preferable to changing the moderation system would be if both sides of
this dispute held to their agreement to seek mediation and cease using
public lists for broadsiding emails.

On 20/06/14 20:26, TeMPOraL wrote:
> +1, I don't think anything should be changed because of this incident; it
> worked well before and even the Jen thread developed much more politely
> than I expected.
>
> Jacek Złydach
> http://temporal.pr0.pl/devblog | http://hackerspace-krk.pl |
> http://esejepg.pl
> (Wysłane z telefonu / sent from a phone)
>

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