Post in 15. Moderating or facilitation discussions

2006 Jul 13 15:51 UTC

--- Steven Clift <<email obscured>> wrote:

> Part of this fear is cultural.  ICT folks are training to provide network
> "security" so any form of openness generates concern.  It is important to
> note
> that openness is a democratic value.  It is also significantly cheaper to
> post-moderate. Also, with Issues Forums we don't pre-moderate to help limit
> our
> liability as a potential publisher.

Post-moderation can be a problem since it is through practice or design
difficult to remove posts from the archive and impossible to expunge from
memory once emailed to the list.

Gavin Sealey