Is It Just Me? (Cont.)

[David]

Pshemekan wrote:

> My plea to admin team, please, oh please, moderate more 
aggresively. I would even suggests moderating *everything* (even 
though I am still pretty happy with my newly acquired mod-free 
status), and imposing a 1 month _without_exception_ no posting 
status for everyone new. 
> 
> BTW, do you Admins read this topic? Or should we cross-post to 
HFPGUADMINS@?

Just to let you know that members of the admin team do read these 
threads - I try to read every post on this list, though sometimes I 
get a day or two behind.

Thank you Pshemekan and everyone else who has put forward ideas for 
how to resolve the problems we have had since the release of OOP.

I think people have identified two problems:

- a high number of posts which break list rules, particularly on 
snipping (clipping), or which repeat recent discussions (which isn't 
against any rule but can be irritating and indicates that the poster 
isn't trying to check that their idea has already been discussed);

- a high volume of good posts

I'm not sure what do do about the second problem: shuffling some 
posts onto another list would still face you with the problem of 
choosing what to miss out on.

However, there is something everyone can do to help with the first 
problem. If you see somebody persistently breaking the rules (and I 
appreciate in the deluge it's hard even to do that), it's OK to 
email the admin team at:

HPforGrownups-owner at yahoogroups.com

and we will try to do something about it. We can (and do) of course 
act on our own initiative, but it's enormously helpful to have more 
persectives on the way the list is working, and to know it isn't 
just the admin team being picky. Remember, though, that if a 
complaint does lead to an offlist rebuke, or even moderated status, 
you will be unlikely to hear about it, since telling people off in 
public tends not to work as a way of getting them to change their 
behaviour.

Please don't 'name and shame' bad posters here, though - that way 
total breakdown lies.

David