I wish I had the option of no-post status. The software I am required to
use here at best.com only gives options for full subscription and posting
status without recieiving messages.
Occasionally I kick someone off the list. This is for the offense of
advertising in almost all cases. Every once in a while (like maybe once or
twice in 7 years) I'll kick someone off for posting lots of flames,
personal attacks, and disruptive posts. This isn't counting the 3 former
list members in 1995 who were deliberately disrupting the list.
I have one borderline list member now (and a couple potential ones) who
belongs on the list (i.e., has the medical problems the list covers) and
does contribute worthwhile things. Unforntuately, he also contributes a
lot of idiotic posts that just lead to flamewars. And he posts too often.
I've warned him like a hundred times and he agrees with me that some of
what he posts is "flamebait." For about a year now I've had countless
fellow subscribers beg me to kick him off (and some people, very few,
asking me not to kick him off...some people have made their dislike of him
public, though I never never disiplicine a list member publically). I've
hesitated to do so. At the point where he got his very last warning a few
months ago, he shaped up and posted hardly anything until recently. And
now he's starting on his usual road again.
I don't want to kick him off the list because he benefits from it and also
does contribute good stuff. I wish I had an inbetween status to give him,
such as no-post. I would much rather use that as a "punishment" than
kicking him from the list. I mean, unlike advertisers and people who are
harressing list members, there is no harm in him reading posts. I also
would love a setting that made posts from certain people moderated (had to
come through me first) while keeping the rest of the list unmoderated (I
don't have the time to approve 10-30 posts a day).
My list is a support group/information sharing group for people with
certain medical conditions.
Cyndi
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