Some details on a moderated pianotech

[gordon stelter]

A lot of people here, not just me, post OT stuff.
Mostly just fluff-- one-liners and such. But waiting
for 100 of these to open is as bad as a waiting for a
few of the  more "substantial" OT posts to open. I
think that a good solution to this is to simply
require that all OT posts be labeled as such. Whether
a one-line pun or a treatise on genetics, anyone who
posts one of these without labeling it OT would be a
"fair-game" fopr the wrath of all members . ( also in
OT posts, of course! )
   In lieu of this, may I suggest a separate list:
"pianotech-e-brawl", or such.

    Thump


--- antares <antares@euronet.nl> wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> I personally think this is a pain in the you know
> what.
> For years, this list has been a fine place for the
> exchange of piano 
> related e-mails.
> Since we are people, it is inevitable that we crack
> a joke every now 
> and then and that never has been a serious problem.
> Too many jokes, and 
> a humor list was created, and that has worked fine
> too.
> I am just worried that if you cut out the frivolous
> side of us humans, 
> this list will become purely an exchange of
> questions and answers, 
> where at the same time it always had a function of
> just a little more 
> than that, and that is exactly what makes this list
> so attractive and 
> addictive too.
> 
> The real problem always occurs when Evangelists want
> to evangelize and 
> Politicians want to politicize.
> Indeed, this list is definitely not a religious
> forum nor a place for 
> political debate.
> 
> My advice would be to skip the OT possibility, get a
> stern warning out 
> to religious and politically minded subscribers to
> cut the you know 
> what, and let's get on with it the way is has gone
> on fine for many 
> years.
> 
> Otherwise you will get indeed a number of different
> lists and it might 
> be possible that pianotech gets sort of sterile.
> 
> My € (Euro)
> 
> André Oorebeek
> 
> On 5-mei-04, at 19:45, Andrew Rudoff wrote:
> 
> >> But who's going to do the moderating?  Sounds
> like a 24 hour-a-day 
> >> job to
> >> me, unless postings are delayed and only posted a
> few times a day.
> >
> > Volunteers from the ECC will take turns doing the
> moderating.  There 
> > will
> > of course be a delay.  The idea is that if you
> want to see the posts 
> > with
> > no delay, you subscribe to pianotech and see them
> as they come out.  
> > But
> > if you're willing to wait until the moderator has
> pre-read the posts, 
> > so
> > that the off-topic stuff is filtered out, you
> subscribe to the 
> > pianotech-m.
> >
> > How much of a delay are we talking about?  Depends
> on who's doing the 
> > moderating
> > that week and how busy they are.  As a going in
> position, I would say 
> > that
> > moderators are expected to review posts several
> times a day if 
> > possible, but
> > no less than once a day at a minimum.
> >
> > -andy
> >
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