On 2022-02-08 05:04 GMT, deepend wrote:
*Looking for input on creating guidelines to help improve this mailing list and make moderation more consistent.
*Please take a look and comment your thoughts and suggestions.*
Oh that's a bit big. Not many people are going to remember 23 points before posting, are they? There's already the page pointed to by the list's welcome mail, https://tilde.wiki/mailing_lists. It's widely ignored (e.g. your post wasn't in all plain text! I think Thunderbird added those surplus asterisks to the plain part). I can't see adding more rules is going to make much improvement in practise. I'll comment though.
- Write in clear, grammatical, correctly-spelled language.
This won't really be enforced, will it? It would take out half of native-English speakers' posts and I don't think would be fair on non-native speakers (assuming they're posting in English).
Of course, if it *is* enforced, I'm assuming it will demand strictly British English, as the original and genuine!
- Include your real name and email address in posts.
What's considered a "real name"? Are "barnold" or "deepend" real names?
- Avoid sarcasm and humor to keep from being misunderstood.
No humo(u)r?? That would be sad.
I actually liked the recent burst of life on the list, it's easy enough to delete posts that are silly or annoying. I don't agree that you've "been a failure as far as moderating and managing this mailing list". Maybe restrict subscription and posting to tildeverse addresses?
Thanks for requesting comments and I hope I did't make you regret it!