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[Discuss] time to scrap the moderated list

James TheKobald at tampabay.rr.com
Fri Dec 7 01:06:17 CET 2007


Robert Croson, Jr wrote:
>
> Moderators often have other things to do. (You know, the whole RL thing and 
> all.)  Not only that, but the mdoerators almost always follow the policy of no 
> self-moderation. This means that moderators should not mod their own 
> messages, or moderate any thread in which they take part. This means that if 
> someone starts a thread (or a moderator starts it) and another moderator 
> replies to it, then that moderator(s) can never mod any further messages in 
> that thread. And since moderators also happen to be people that like to discuss 
> things...
>
>   

That's my biggest problem.  Right now (especially) is finals week and I 
tend to reply to a lot of messages.  Between the two I usually either 
don't have the time to mod the message or I've already replied to the 
message.



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