On 5/30/23 02:23, Per Jessen wrote:
Simon Lees wrote:
I agree that mailing list moderation is not well documented, this is partly because its not something we generally do especially on a large scale.
Simon, I suggest that is merely an excuse - the Board appointed external, unknown moderators at some point, yet neglected to document it. It is also not clear what exactly their duties and processes are.
Generally the lists are unmoderated and if there is an issue someone simply raises a complaint to the board.
More often, to the list itself.
Unfortunately some years back the board was put into the position of choosing to either ban certain members from lists for a period or place them under moderation for a period of time. The second option seeming more preferable but also requiring the rapid setup of a team to handle it. The restrictions on those individuals lifted quite some time ago so until this week there was practically no moderation happening on any lists.
The board does sometimes choose to place certain members under moderation for a period if there has been complaints about their behavior at which time the moderation team will just review those posts.
Why isn't the "moderation team" actively following the lists they are assigned to? Seems dereliction of duty to me.
I think that's a general miss understanding, the moderation team were previously only moderating the emails of certain members as requested by the board. I was talking with members of the board at the openSUSE conference and we agreed that the best solution to the current issues was to put the lists on moderation while the board sorts through the complaints they have received. If the board would like the list more heavily retrospectively moderated by a mailing list moderation team rather then complaints just going directly to them that is something we can address in the future. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B