General Policy Stuff

[Cindy C.]

Howdy!

Dicey (on limitation to 15 Mods):
 
> I believe so, although if you already have more than 15, you can
>keep them (as is the case on other HPfGU lists).  However, if you
>delete one of those, you lose the slot if more than 15 mods remain.

Hmmm.  It seems a shame that new members of this group can't have Mod
privileges unless someone is willing to surrender them.  It really
does make a difference -- those without Mod privileges won't receive
messages sent to the FAQ list owner, they can't see the e-mail
addresses of other members, they can't change the colors or perform
any other moderator functions (approve memberships, etc.)

Maybe we can solve this problem by setting up one Yahoo Account that
does have Mod privileges for this list.  All of the FAQ members who
don't have their own Mod privileges could have the password and could
sign in as a Mod whenever they need to do something, er . . . Mod-ish.
 This would require someone to surrender their own Mod privileges, though.

Now, on to this question of scrubbing . . . 

One thing I noticed when I was running this group last year is that
administrative issues can easily swallow you whole.  They just keep
coming at you, one after another, and before you know it, you're all
bogged down.  Now that all of us are working together in some loose
form of governance, we run the risk of being repeatedly derailed by
discussions of administrative issues.

A proposal, then. 

How about if this group decides to review its archives before new
members arrive and to delete anything that might embarrass a new
member, as we have done in the past?  If MEG comes up with some
compelling reason to handle things differently, they can tell us and
we can reconsider our decision, of course.  This proposal will avoid
delay in bringing in new members, it will avoid spending any more time
and effort on the issue, and it will side-step all of those sticky
autonomy issues as well!  Ever So Awesome!

How about if no one objects to this proposal in the next few days,
we'll consider that to be our group consensus decision?  Or, if we
prefer to go with majority rule on this one, I guess we could draft
and run a poll.

Cindy