Re: This video is dedicated to all of you

[Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 05:25:56PM +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-10-17 at 21:52 +0000, Olav Vitters wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 06:32:44PM +0100, Emmanuele Bassi via
> > desktop-devel-list wrote:
> > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 at 18:30, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wed, 2018-10-17 at 19:24 +0200, Alberto Salvia Novella via
> > > > desktop-
> > > > devel-list wrote:
> > > > > https://youtu.be/XXXX
> > > >
> > > > How is this person still allowed to post on d-d-l?
> > >
> > > Yes, can we please enable some moderation? Not only this stuff is
> > > obnoxious
> > > trolling, but people are replying to it. I dontyreally want this
> > > stuff in
> > > my inbox.
> >
> > Mailing lists suck IMO, especially mailman2 where you need to
> > remember a password and in case you forgot you'll need to ask a
> > sysadmin to make a new password for every moderator. Mailman3 would
> > fix this, but super slow development pace last time I checked.
> > Ideally it would be a more free for all.
> >
> > I didn't see the previous emails from Mr. Novella. He sent something
> > many months ago. I find d-d-l rather quiet. This email I would even
> > have
> > opened based upon the subject as it is pretty spammy.
> >
> > I've set the moderation bit on Mr. Novella but do think asking for
> > moderation is overlooking that if you follow various other GNOME
> > discussion methods you'll find a way lower signal to noise ratio
> > (many useless comments per hour).
>
> What does this have to do with the fact that the mailing-list needs to
> be moderated? It's just whataboutism.

The need to remember an annoying password makes moderating annoying.
Further, the interface sucks, there's loads of spam in the moderation
queue and for months there's nothing to do. Further, someone sending
some not so nice messages doesn't mean moderation you immediately need
moderation.

> If keeping track of the mailing-list admin password is too complicated,
> I'd be happy to help moderate it.

The admin password is whataboutism :-P I was talking about the
moderation password. Andre Klapper offered to assist as well. I didn't
see a new password, feel free to request a reset a new one from AV, then
share with whomever is interested.

-- 
Regards,
Olav