Oh my God this big brother conspiracy thing is going WAY too far.
Maurits.
I think the \u201cbig brother conspiracy thing\u201d might be a bit over the top, but my own experience with the LUG moderation is that it does seem to be exerted more than is needed in many instances, and curiously inconsistent in others. I would offer, as one example, the extended inflammatory exchange, involving Dennis Gunn and some other LUG members, that went on during this past January or December, and was allowed to escalate for days before there was any intervention from the moderator.
I appreciate your sentiments, but I believe the LUG is somewhat (moderately?) over-moderated. Personally, I wish the moderators would be more hands off, and step in only when a thread has deteriorated beyond some reasonable threshold of civility or relevance; not, for instance, when someone has placed the message and quoted text of a post in the wrong order.
The best moderated list I\u2019ve ever been on is the DAW-Mac list, also on Yahoo! groups. The members pretty much police themselves, with occasional intervention from a very vigilant moderator, and the s/n ratio of the posts is consistently high. I would offer it as a model to which the LUG moderators should aspire.
- PH