On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:29, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
>>
>>> Why is there significant delay on important posts, yet some posts go
>>> almost straight though? Every time I use Announce my posts are delayed
>>> for about 4-5 days.
>>>
>>> Why do some posts jump the queue, appearing to imply the moderator is
>>> being selective in releasing some, yet not others?
>>>
>>> Do we need some more moderators?
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> Currently the only moderators for -announce are Marc and Greg S-M. This
>> means that you can get your announce through quickly if you follow up a
>> posting to that list with a private e-mail to one of them; otherwise, stuff
>> tends to lag for several days. Or there are a couple of pass-throughs, for
>> release announcements and PWN, which are not moderated.
>>
>> I've asked several times that we add additional moderators for -announce.
>
> Anyone volunteering ... ? Adding is simple enough ...
In principle I would, and I have before, but "the way that we do
moderation" really doesn't scale to multiple moderators, and I'm not
willing to expend my time for pointless work.
What I'm referring to? The fact that at least last time I was looking
at this, most (all other?) moderators *only* approve things. And never
reject them, instead letting the timeout take care of things thatn
shouldn't be posted. That means that if there are 10 moderators, every
one of them needs to look at all the mails and ignore them. In cases
of other lists where I moderate, people reject spam when they see it,
which means that once I go in there I only see stuff that nobody else
has already processed. Which makes for less double (or ten-double)
work...
(I still do moderate some lists, but they are the smaller and more
specific ones for pgeu and such, where there is only one or in worst
case two moderators)
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