New moderatorial regulations (Was:Re: [tied] Re: RO eccles. term.)

My two cents on this.

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...> >
I will propose some new moderatorial regulations

> soon. They should
> help to redress balance on this list and they'll
> discourage the
> posters from losing focus. Tighter discipline is
> necessary for the
> list to maintain its desirable intellectual
> standard.
>
> Piotr
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon"
> <glengordon01@...> wrote:
> > I'm now tortured by the pain of deleting hundreds
> of posts a day
> > of threads that are either trivial or very
> narrowly focused.

*****GK: Grit your teeth and move on.*****

So much

> > so that I've forgotten whether I'm registered to
> an Indo-European
> > forum or a Romanian one.

*****GK: Just because you have nothing to contribute
to a topic doesn't mean that it is uninteresting. Grit
your teeth and move on.******

> >
> > Perhaps we could all agree at least to cut down
> the size of our
> > posts by limiting the length of our quotes of
> others. I've seen
> > many posts thus far that quote the entire post of
> someone else
> > for no reason other than to be annoying.

*****GK: This on the other hand is an excellent
suggestion with which I agree 100%.*****

Another suggestion: When a thread goes off on a
tangent, the title should be appropriately changed
with only the first communication of the new focus
retaining an indication of what the thread started out
as ["Was:***]

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