Stasiek Michalski wrote:
But we have users and offtopic mailing lists (and everyone has their private inbox!) to solve those issues without having to drag the whole list, which has wildly different default topic, with them. None of us are advocating just warning and muting anyone that sends a message slightly off topic, the role of moderators is to feel out the conversations and in case they are heading in a direction which isn't list appropriate (or just not appropriate in general), nudge the people to finish the conversation in a different place. The warning and mutes are tools for clear cut spam and guiding principles violations more than anything else.
What I don't understand - as a community, we have been running mailing lists for +20 years, and we have often enough had people nudge someone to "take this someplace else". Why has there now suddenly arisen a need for someone to be appointed to do this, and only on a tiny subset of lists? I sometimes "listen in" on the users-el or the users-es lists and the language used there is not for the faint of heart, but as a community we don't seem to mind.
This is no different from people suggesting different channel on irc, telegram, discord, matrix for finishing up their conversation. I would assume that concept should be fairly well understood, since I see that done all the time in all 4 of those.
This is _very_ different. Stasiek, you are making an assumption that the majority of our mailing lists users also frequent those channels. I think that assumption is wrong and I don't understand what you base it on. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (3.1°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes