[AusNOG] List Charter - Was Re: Glovine Servers OFFLINE!

[Mark ZZZ Smith]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Jeremy Visser <jeremy at visser.name>
> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Cc: 
> Sent: Thursday, 11 December 2014, 8:16
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] List Charter - Was Re:  Glovine Servers OFFLINE!
> 
> On 10/12/14 17:16, Mark ZZZ Smith wrote:
>>  I don't think there is anything wrong with the charter, it seems the 
>>  problem is some peoples' ability to have to comply with it.
> 
> I think the real issue is the moderators' unwillingness to enforce their own 
> charter.
> 

It is the AusNOG charter, and therefore *our* charter, not just the moderators'. The moderators aren't the parents, and everybody else aren't children to be disciplined when they misbehave.

> Particularly this section:
> 
>>  If the abuser(s) does not cease, their list subscription will be set
>>  to moderated mode, requiring all future posts to be moderator
>>  approved. Further inappropriate activity may result in the list
>>  member being removed.
> 
> I consider the moderators to be not doing their job at this present time.
> 
> The permabanhammer *needs* to be brought out.
> 

That sounds like a gamers forum attitude - "I'll try it on until I don't get away with it."

This is intended to be a professional forum. Professional decorum is expected. There shouldn't actually be a need at all for moderation, and before the list's existence made it into the main stream press there wasn't.

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