On Wed, 2018-03-14 at 18:02 -0500, meg ford wrote:
Hi Germán, On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 7:33 AM, Germán Poo-Caamaño <gpoo gnome org> wrote:On Wed, 2018-03-14 at 10:00 +0000, Allan Day wrote:= Foundation Board Minutes for Tue, March 13th 2018, 18:00 UTC = [...] * Moderation of public mailing lists (Carlos) * There have been some complaints that mailing lists aren't being properly moderated - primarily unpleasant/toxic emails being ignored * There's no escalation process - what can people do if they feel they've been mistreated? * There's no process for becoming a moderator or joining a moderators team * Questions: * Would it be better to tackle this issue once we have a code of conduct? * Is it the moderator's role to police behaviour, or is it more of an admin role? * Rosanna - some moderators have taken a more active role in the past.FWIW, I am the administrator of the gtk-list, and my role has always been checking the queue of pending messages to the list. Some eons ago I requested to pass the list to the moderators team, with no response (AFAIU). When I stepped in, I think that was the role it was always expected for the list's "moderator". The thing is, I could barely moderate the behaviour in the list if I unsubscribed myself of such list several years ago (more than 5 or 6, for sure). Whenever I need to figure out something, I read (or search) the archives. My understanding is that many in the moderator team (or as it was originally proposed) did not need to be subscribed. Even more, it was a way for newcomers to get involved.During the board meeting no one mentioned the existence of a moderator team. I don't think the current Board knows anything about it. Can you point us to information about it (if any exists), or give us some background (if there's no documentation)?
Hi Meg, The Moderator Team started on January 2005, it seems the idea came from Ross Golder (IIRC, an active member of the Sysadmin Team back then): https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-infrastructure/2005-January/msg00 015.html It was announced to all mailing list owners: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/meld-list/2005-January/msg00007.html And, as I said before, the idea also involved getting newcomers involved: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-love/2005-August/msg00017.html The team is listed among all other teams: https://wiki.gnome.org/Teams And the latest information available from the team is from 2010: https://wiki.gnome.org/ModeratorTeam I hope this helps. -- Germán Poo-Caamaño http://calcifer.org/
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