Re: Minutes of the Foundation Board, 13th March

Hi Germán,

On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 7:33 AM, Germán Poo-Caamaño <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 2018-03-14 at 10:00 +0000, Allan Day wrote:
> > = Foundation Board Minutes for Tue, March 13th 2018, 18:00 UTC =
> > [...]
> >  * Moderation of public mailing lists (Carlos)
> >   * There have been some complaints that mailing lists aren't being
> > properly moderated - primarily unpleasant/toxic emails being ignored
> >   * There's no escalation process - what can people do if they feel
> > they've been mistreated?
> >   * There's no process for becoming a moderator or joining a
> > moderators team
> >   * Questions:
> >    * Would it be better to tackle this issue once we have a code of
> > conduct?
> >    * Is it the moderator's role to police behaviour, or is it more of
> > an admin role?
> >   * Rosanna - some moderators have taken a more active role in the
> > past.
>
> FWIW, I am the administrator of the gtk-list, and my role has always
> been checking the queue of pending messages to the list. Some eons ago
> I requested to pass the list to the moderators team, with no response
> (AFAIU).
>
> When I stepped in, I think that was the role it was always expected for
> the list's "moderator".
>
> The thing is, I could barely moderate the behaviour in the list if I
> unsubscribed myself of such list several years ago (more than 5 or 6,
> for sure). Whenever I need to figure out something, I read (or search)
> the archives.
>
> My understanding is that many in the moderator team (or as it was
> originally proposed) did not need to be subscribed. Even more, it was a
> way for newcomers to get involved.
>

During the board meeting no one mentioned the existence of a moderator
team. I don't think the current Board knows anything about it. Can you
point us to information about it (if any exists), or give us some
background (if there's no documentation)?

Thanks,
Meg

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