[bitcoin-dev] Mailing List Moderation Now Active.

[Rusty Russell via bitcoin-dev]

Hi all,

We aim to make the list more contentful and productive; to get devs to
resubscribe we need to maximize high-value interactions.

- Currently 5 moderators. BtcDrak, me, G1lius, Kanzure and Johnathan.
As far as I know we're entirely unconnected, and we cover Asia/Europe/US.

- Moderation will last 3 months. Then we'll have an unmoderated on-list
discussion as to whether it should continue, or change.

- Appeals for/against moderation decisions should be directed to Jeff, who
will have final say. General moderation feedback just send to me.

- All rejected posts will be forwarded to a list for public viewing:
https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev-moderation/

- Everyone starts moderated, and the mod bit gets cleared as they post.
It gets set again if someone notices or reports a violation.

- Moderation rules:
- No offensive posts, no personal attacks.
- Posts must concern the near-term development of the bitcoin core
code or bitcoin protocol.
- Posts must contribute to bitcoin development.
- Generally encouraged: patches, notification of pull requests, BIP
proposals, academic paper announcements. And discussions that follow.
- Generally discouraged: shower thoughts, wild speculation, jokes, +1s,
non-technical bitcoin issues, rehashing settled topics without new
data, moderation concerns.
- Detailed patch discussion generally better on the GitHub PR.
- Meta-discussion is better on bitcoin-discuss:
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-discuss

- We will make mistakes, we are human, so please be patient.

Your friendly moderators.

[Mike Hearn via bitcoin-dev]

Post by Rusty Russell via bitcoin-dev
- Posts must concern the near-term development of the bitcoin core
code or bitcoin protocol.

Are block size discussions considered acceptable, then?

[Mike Hearn via bitcoin-dev]

This post by Gavin got rejected by the moderators.

Without a doubt this moderation policy is already a disaster. I'm fully
expecting this message to get rejected too, but so you can see it Rusty: so
far in the reject bin there are messages from:

- Well known uber-troll Gavin Andresen
- And his partner in crime, Sergio Damian Lerner
- Someone discussing a bug
- Someone who wants to discuss CLTV
- Someone pointing out that censorship of technical discussion is rarely
a good idea
- Someone pointing out that censorship of people complaining about
censorship is also taking place.

WTF?

[xor via bitcoin-dev]

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