RE: [atlarge-discuss] list confrontation(s)

["Dassa" <dassa@dhs.org>]

|> -----Original Message-----
|> From: Joop Teernstra [mailto:terastra@terabytz.co.nz]
|> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 6:26 PM
|> To: James S. Tyre; Sotiris Sotiropoulos;
|> atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de
|> Subject: Re: [atlarge-discuss] list confrontation(s)
|>
|>
|> At 06:24 p.m. 9/06/2003, James S. Tyre wrote:
|>   >To put this in perspective, I'm really thinking more about the
|> possibility of abuse by those  >who seek to disrupt (surely not me).
|>
|> Yes, that's the only reason why we bother to write such
|> elaborate rules. I have experienced  how a saboteur can use the rules
against
|> those who want to be productive.
|> It is a Sysiphus labor to try and refine the rules more and
|> more for clever disrupters to find more loopholes.
|> The moderator must use some subjective judgement and that is
|> why he must be elected and can be kicked out.
|> I would favour a rotating list moderator, just like we now
|> have a rotating Panel Chair.
|> The burden must be spread, everyone carrying his/her bit of the load.
<SNIP>

Rules can only be used against those who break them.  One of the
problems with elaborate rules is that they can be used often in ways not
within the original intention for writing them.  Better to keep the
rules simple and purely objective.  Once you start using subjective
responses you open the floodgates to all sorts of
abuses/interpretations.

As Joanna has mentioned, there have been previous successful
applications of list rules.  They should be sufficient for the
organisation in the beginning and future refinement can take place once
more serious work has been undertaken.

I'm personally a little ambient towards a rotating list moderator, not
everyone is cut out for the task.  It would certainly be one way of
finding out who is.

Darryl (Dassa) Lynch



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