[bookshare-discuss] Re: Off topic messages
- From: Cindy Rosenthal <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:02:36 -0800 (PST)
Thanks, Ann.
I think I have enough to do, grin. This list doesn't
have a list owner, unless it's freelist or
bookshare,and we all seem to be doing a good job of
moderating. smile.
Cindy
--- Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Cindy, excellent question. When I first started
> doing lists back in
> the dark ages, not quite at the time of the
> Anglo-Saxon kings but
> almost, the moderator was called the listowner. The
> job description
> included: confirming subscriptions, subscribing
> people, deleting old
> subs, checking error messages and other
> administrative tasks. In
> addition, he or she read most posts on the list and
> was its discussion
> leader. In some communities a moderator was
> different from the
> listowner and only did the social things and not the
> techie things
> having to do with the list.
>
> However, and this is a big however, the listowner
> (I'm using this as a
> generic term here), when in her moderator role did
> some of the
> following things: read all messages, admonished
> rule breakers (usually
> privately), placed rule breakers into review mode or
> moderated status,
> quelled uprisings, deleted trolls, settled disputes,
> and generally
> played chief or monarch.
>
> There are different views on how a list should be
> run, but I favor the
> monarchical rule because one person, or possibly two
> or three say what
> goes. They make the final decisions and cannot be
> argued with at all.
> the listowner(s) may not always be right, but they,
> as Phil Scovell
> says, "are the listowner. The buck stops here...."
> All complaints
> about how the list is run, who should post what, and
> so on go to the
> listowner, privately, period! It's a no-no to
> discuss how a list is
> run on that list.
>
> If you're thinking of volunteering, Cindy, polish
> your diplomatic
> skills, purchase an asbestus suit, and prepare for
> boarders! It's a
> down and dirty, thankless, sometimes hopeless,
> sometimes miraculous,
> sometimes so moving that you sob at your keyboard,
> sometimes you fall
> off your chair laughing, sometimes you wonder where
> some people were
> raised, sometimes you want to jump up and down and
> scream, but it is
> always, always, always rewarding because you meet
> and talk with and
> become friends with the most wonderful and unusual
> people, the world's
> netizens. The job hasn't changed much over the
> years. It's pretty
> much as I've described it. Some places divide the
> job among many,
> others do not, depends on the list and on the
> software and the larger
> community of lists and listowners. If that kind of
> job appeals, go for it!
>
> Ann P.
>
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