[hackerspaces] status of this list

[Paul Kuhnast (spoony)]

I've abstained from joining any of these recent discussions hoping that all
the crap would just die off.

It has gotten ridiculous with so many people arguing over how things should
be discussed.


My personal opinion.. I hate moderated lists for anything other than job
offers/for sale/classified etc, I really don't know where things went wrong
but it went from bad to ridiculous quite quickly and I don't think anyone
that's a part of the discussion is innocent.

So to the people wondering why no one was disagreeing with moderation they
were probably just keeping quiet like me (not to mentioned during most of
the busy time when this discussion was flooding the airwaves I was at work
and could read but not post on the address that I'm subscribed with).

I'm aware that moderation isn't censorship.. but it's basically treating
people like kids who have to be "ruled". I have no problem with a one
paragraph statement about how to believe but it shouldn't be much longer
than "be respectful and polite to each other, ie. no personal attacks or
baiting".. and that's it.


Anyway that's the one and only email I'll send regarding all of this.. I was
reluctant to send this but I didn't want the people pushing for moderation
to be the loudest.

Cheers,

pjk

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:54 PM, albi <albi at squat.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 15 May 2009 11:12:45 +0200 (CEST)
> quemener.yves at free.fr wrote:
>
> > - - - There are very diverse persons here. Moderating from a single
> > place with a single culture sets a bad precedent.
> > - - - Simply put : I don't know this Matt person. Probably a good guy
> > with good intentions but I suspect that many people not from
> > NYCResistor don't know him either. I find it worrying that there are
> > people who are vocally voting for Matt because they know him in the
> > physical world, giving a false sense of unanimity.
> > - - - I would have preferred this mail to be useless but there seems
> > to be some kind of voting occurring, so I'll vote for : moderator : no
> > guidelines : why not
>
> well spoken, couldn't agree more
>
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