The Logic Off Topic list

Thoughts from the mind of Joeri Vankeirsbilck, 19-06-2001:

>  > When you have made that desision are you prepared to argue the point?
>>  Are you prepared to go in to regular battles about this, and are you
>>  prepared to ban people who disobey or disagree?
>
>I definitely won't ban people for that, but I'll give them my reasoning behind
>the decision and if they don't agree, I'll invite them to moderate 
>this list and see how long they are then willing to argue!

Wrong approach imo.  Like I said, I don't believe in "democracy all 
the way" ...  Once you start explaining why you do what you do, 
you'll have a fulltime job writing such mails, I'm afraid.  Since 
you're the moderator of this list, you have a veto-right which you 
can use.  If you forward a mail to the OT-list, then that's your 
decision, and no-one should argue with that.  If they don't agree, 
they can volunteer to become the next moderator once elections are 
held :-). If I were you, I'd have a standard mail ready for such 
occasions: "Dear X, you mail was deemed off-topic and is thus 
forwarded to the off-topic list.  As a moderator of this list, this 
is my decision, which is not open to discussion."  Period.

>  > Are you prepared to allow a more long standing member such as Hendrick,
>>  Sascha or f-erenc an odd OT but clamp down on a newcomer?
>
>Definitely not, I'm sorry. Although some people might be a bit more equal than
>others (Sascha and Hendrick are people I would never moderate....

Justice, finally... :-)

>but then they're clever enough not to need any moderation either

Ha!  Dream on baby...


tataaaaaa,
HJ
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