Some details on a moderated pianotech

[John M. Formsma]

I agree with Andre also. Seems like a lot of effort for the benefit of a
few who could learn to filter and group their e-mails and use the delete
button.

I mean, really, the people who complain about the posts that are
flippin' **labeled** "OT" can't hit delete??? Are their eyes and hands
too helpless to resist the power of an OT post drawing them closer and
closer til they've succumbed? ;-)

Most of the complaints are over OT posts. If they're labeled, whose
fault is it for reading it in the first place? Then to complain about
it? That doesn't make much sense.

John Formsma


> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
> Behalf Of antares
> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 1:26 PM
> To: Pianotech
> Subject: Re: Some details on a moderated pianotech
>
>
> Hi Andy,
> I personally think this is a pain in the you know what.
> For years, this list has been a fine place for the exchange of piano
> related e-mails.
> Since we are people, it is inevitable that we crack a joke every now
> and then and that never has been a serious problem. Too many
> jokes, and
> a humor list was created, and that has worked fine too.
> I am just worried that if you cut out the frivolous side of
> us humans,
> this list will become purely an exchange of questions and answers,
> where at the same time it always had a function of just a little more
> than that, and that is exactly what makes this list so attractive and
> addictive too.
>
> The real problem always occurs when Evangelists want to
> evangelize and
> Politicians want to politicize.
> Indeed, this list is definitely not a religious forum nor a place for
> political debate.
>
> My advice would be to skip the OT possibility, get a stern
> warning out
> to religious and politically minded subscribers to cut the you know
> what, and let's get on with it the way is has gone on fine for many
> years.
>
> Otherwise you will get indeed a number of different lists and
> it might
> be possible that pianotech gets sort of sterile.
>
> My € (Euro)
>
> André Oorebeek
>
> On 5-mei-04, at 19:45, Andrew Rudoff wrote:
>
> >> But who's going to do the moderating?  Sounds like a 24 hour-a-day
> >> job to
> >> me, unless postings are delayed and only posted a few times a day.
> >
> > Volunteers from the ECC will take turns doing the
> moderating.  There
> > will
> > of course be a delay.  The idea is that if you want to see
> the posts
> > with
> > no delay, you subscribe to pianotech and see them as they
> come out.
> > But
> > if you're willing to wait until the moderator has pre-read
> the posts,
> > so
> > that the off-topic stuff is filtered out, you subscribe to the
> > pianotech-m.
> >
> > How much of a delay are we talking about?  Depends on who's
> doing the
> > moderating
> > that week and how busy they are.  As a going in position, I
> would say
> > that
> > moderators are expected to review posts several times a day if
> > possible, but
> > no less than once a day at a minimum.
> >
> > -andy
> >
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