[tor-project] List moderation or subscriber trimming on tor-talk@

[Griffin Boyce]

Damian Johnson wrote:
>> IDK, on my end it looks a lot better. Maybe it's just the placebo 
>> effect ;-)
> 
> Honestly might just be me shaking my head at seeing a subject saying
> "Is Rape the same as Copyright?". You're quite possibly right that we
> could get a lot of mileage by removing the most disruptive
> individuals, though personally I still think just outright moderation
> will work better.

   That troll actually sent me a mea culpa email, which was pretty funny.

> We all recognize the list is broken but never take any action. Trouble
> is that this is a timesink none of us are eager to have on our plate.
> If anyone wants to lead the charge in cleaning up our most visible and
> important list just say the word! More than happy to pull what levers
> I can to get ya what you need.

   If given list management access, I'd eject a few notable off-topic 
members (juan.g71 at gmail.com, afalex169 at gmail.com, 
cecilia.tanaka at gmail.com, tor_talk at arcor.de) some recent off-topic 
members (dungeonmaster at sigaint.org, skywalker543 at sigaint.org, 
thomas.hluchnik at netcologne.de), and off-topic announcement-only members 
(ja.talk at yandex.com, jacobappelbaum.net at yandex.com).

   When I was still an admin on the 2600 FB group, we took a similar 
approach and were able to move from the list being a total trashfire to 
being a decent discussion board.  But I have no problem using the 
banhammer.

~Griffin