Re: List Moderation Discussion

From: <Jacques>
Date: Wed Aug 31 2005 - 21:06:00 EDT

HELLO ALL, let me add my 2 cents from the point of view of a moderator of another group. I think your effort to guide members on how to formulate questions is good but will be difficult, I am not sure that adding more rules has ever solved anything. You have a large group with different ethnic, cultural and language backgrounds, all these differences make accurate communication difficult. Even when you speak the same language, are of the same age and background, misunderstandings are frequent and to be expected. Many people cannot be bothered to press the speel (you see I can't do it either) check button, let alone formulate a coherent question. The art of good communication is difficult, requires effort, good will and tenacity.

One solution that I would like to see is something that is tied to your e-mail client Outlook Express or whatever and comes up like a tooltip to give advice to people writing messages on what to avoid such as: use you spell checker, make your question specific, search the archive section of the group, do some basic research with Google, say please, thank you and sign your name. I am not if or how this could be done.

I am very interested to see what comes out of this discussion.

Jacques
<a href="http://www.fluidedesign.com">http://www.fluidedesign.com</a> moderator centrifugal_pumps group on Yahoo

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  From: Paul Bowers
  To: <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=YreF5G-jvWQ9SHmL_mTGbCdhrbajK762uSKcs9YB8_OAMnNUGvRuHkJEQrdjJE9QWDOeQtUmocq7ZC9F3ai1Hk37pg">PipingDesign@yahoogroups.com</a>
  Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 8:40 PM
  Subject: [PipingDesign] List Moderation Discussion
  

Hello All,

Let's hear onlist from moderators and other concerned individuals about
how inquiries from newcomers should be managed.

By this I mean a comprehensive "Welcome message" (which includes the
rules and tips) for when people join the list and an additional set of
suggestions for moderators to use when people post unclear, vague or
just plain unanswerable queries.

Please post suggestions in point form with a short justification.

I'll compile all the ideas (after input from the group) and make it into
a sort of official guideline.

Paul

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[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Received on Wed Aug 31 21:06:00 2005