Thanks, Rick -- I recall reading that post now. My real issue here is just how these posts are dealt with. The responses are immediately personal and, for a community, that's the least welcoming thing we could allow. It'd be great if we could stay on topic, but that's not always going to be the case. So, instead of attacking anyone who posts something off topic, consider either ignoring it or replying politely with a simple "I don't believe this isn't the appropriate place to be discussing <topic>" on or off list. If they listen and understand, then great. If they don't, then just ignore their future posts. Yelling at them isn't going to do anything at that point and will just annoy everyone else, potentially driving off the lurkers. If we can stick to and agree on that, my vote would be that we don't need moderation. TL;DR: Stating you like or dislike gun zones is less harmful than insinuating you think someone's stupid for that belief. It'd be nice to not have to deal with either though. Just my two cents. -Andrew On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 3:46 PM Rick Tanner <rick at tanners.org> wrote: > On 6/23/15 3:37 PM, Andrew Dahl wrote: > > What are the chances of instating one or more moderators? > > It was brought up before, and the consensus of those who took the time > to respond was - no moderators. > > http://archives.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/2014-March/065013.html > > (Yes, that post was made by me while wearing my email list admin badge.) > > That email also covers a list of criteria to strongly consider (IMO) for > moderator(s) before this is implemented. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150623/fc56796b/attachment.html>