[bitcoin-discuss] bitcoin-dev moderation summary, first 10 days (October 2015)

Statistics ---------- There have been 48 mails to bitcoin-dev since moderation was announced[1]. There have been 36 moderation requests (each author's first post), of which 7 have been redirected to bitcoin-dev-moderated. Of the 7 redirected posts, 4 were comments on moderation, 1 was a bug report discussion which was redirected to the github issue[2]. Moderation False Positives -------------------------- Failure #1 was a discussion on OP_CTLV[3], which I moderated out as not directly to do with development. The author was encourged to mail Tier Nolan directly (who had not been CC'd). We since decided this was a mistake (useful BIP discussion is explicitly encouraged). Failure #2 was a reply Gavin made on the moderation thread, which despite mentioning moderation was on-topic and productive. The moderator misfired, has apologized, and will be more careful in future. Gavin reposted without issue. Moderation False Negatives -------------------------- Four posts should have been moderated and were not. Three were comments on moderation policy, one should not have been let through, the other two were made by people who had posted once (and thus had their mod bits clear). One was inflammatory[4], and thus the author's mod bit was re-set so they will be moderated next time[5]. One failure was an empty post, because the mailing list was not configured to set the mod bit on new subscribers. I've fixed this. Other Issues ------------ The use of another list to archive the redirected posts works poorly, as mailman's web archive scrubs the redirected post (which are attachments). It does provide a link to the second mail, but the all the mails look identical in the top level summary. If someone want to write something I can process the mails through, I'd be grateful (I can run it via procmail on the lists.ozlabs.org server). We take pains to provide useful information when a moderator decides to reject a post, but this message only goes to the author, not to bitcoin-dev-moderation. General Comments ---------------- Mistakes will happen. If a moderator makes a mistake, please help us fix it! Thanks, Rusty. PS. Here's my current "rejection message" template: Hi <name>! Sorry, we're trying to [move-thread-off|improve-tone-of|avoid-rehashing-old-issues-on|...] the bitcoin-dev mailing list, so your post has been redirected to bitcoin-dev-moderation instead of bitcoin-dev. [I suggest you [reword|see github-url|send-direct-to email|post-to-bitcoin-discuss...]] You can appeal this by re-sending the mail (modified if you wish) and CC: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik at gmail.com>. You can also complain about moderation on bitcoin-discuss, or at the three-month review: see: http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-October/011591.html Thanks! Rusty. [1] http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-October/011591.html [2] https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev-moderation/attachments/20151023/9c808d19/attachment.mht [3] https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev-moderation/attachments/20151024/0c9701fe/attachment.mht [4] http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-October/011624.html [5] http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-discuss/2015-October/000005.html [6] http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2015-October/011616.html