moderation etc. / Re:berry jams

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I LOVE this list, for that very reason! So many other lists, the

list-owner/moderators get their egos all tied up in the list and start

deleting posts that they personally don't like, or they make a valiant

effort to stop " flaming " , but in the latter, all they end up doing is

making people more passive-aggressively nasty, and put a real damper

on any meaningful discussion. Not to mention that, then, their egos go

ahead and get all tied up in the moderation process...

I just do not get these people who whine about posts they don't like.

It is VERY easy to delete a post without reading it. Do they expect

the list-owner to pre-delete every post that the whiner might possibly

not like? You cannot expect everything to be to your liking, outside

your own house. When there are other people involved, you are not the

Center of the Universe. That is obviously the motivation of so many

people who start an email list -- so they can be the Center of the

Universe, and have total control over what is said, and not allow any

disagreement with their own point of view...

Kudos to the Native-Nutrition list-owner! This is a list where we

actually have open communication, not just communication skewed toward

the liking of one individual!

Joy

> > Wow, I am so excited to see a post that is actually covering

> > NativeNutrition!! I recently joined this group and about 95% of the

> > posts I've received so far have all been Politics and/or Religious,

> > not what I come here to learn about.

>

> Delete them.

>

> The reason that the politics and religion tabs exists is so that

> people who don't want to read those posts can set up their email so

> that they are automatically deleted or they can manually delete them.

> There is nothing that demands you must read them.

>

> This is a big community. There is lots of nutritional info. But there

> are many talented and intelligent people with varied interests, and

> threads can veer off into directions that may have started out in

> nutrition but subsequently went elsewhere.

>

> The owner of this list, unlike many others, has allowed such

> interaction to go on. I think it makes for an interesting and full

> bodied list. Others may disagree, but there is a mechanism set up -

> the proper tagging of religious, political, and off-topic posts - that

> allows people who disagree to avoid having to read those posts.

>