[OSM-talk] BDFL & Moderation
Alan Mintz
Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.Net
Wed Aug 11 20:07:37 BST 2010
At 2010-08-11 11:26, SteveC wrote:
>...Any moderation will be announced to those people I just mentioned, and
>not publicly. Why not publicly? On balance, it seems better to not call
>out individuals publicly which might only make things worse and make them
>feel more upset, which is not the purpose of a 'cooling off' period.
I believe doing it this way is better because it makes it less personal. If
it's public, it's more like making a child sit in the corner in front of
the room, which is as much about humiliation/embarrassment as anything else.
Overall, I like the idea - "circuit breakers" generally prove to be a good
way to stop a runaway in other fields.
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Alan Mintz <Alan_Mintz+OSM at Earthlink.net>
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