Re: [bitcoin-dev] 1 Year bitcoin-dev Moderation Review

From: Dave Scotese <dscotese@litmocracy•com>
To: Henning Kopp <henning.kopp@uni-ulm•de>,
	 Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Bitcoin Discuss <bitcoin-discuss@lists•linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] 1 Year bitcoin-dev Moderation Review
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 08:34:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGLBAhd4dzUncmdU006rR1+HLon7O-AM30CZZs3qbNMDpgJgJA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161010073806.GA2172@banane.informatik.uni-ulm.de>

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I sent my previous email ONLY to bitcoin-discuss@lists•linuxfoundation.org
and it waited in the moderation queue.  I don't know when moderation was
added to this list, but it seems to me that it's a misstep.

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 12:38 AM, Henning Kopp via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists•linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I totally agree with the assessment of the situation. Previously I
> learned a lot about bitcoin on this list. There were a lot of great
> ideas regarding the protocol and the surrounding ecosystem. Now there
> is mainly talk about code and BIPs, which is the main purpose of a
> developer list.
> I do not feel that we should clog bitcoin-dev again with
> non-development talk but rather find a way to get bitcoin-discuss
> going. My impression is that bitcoin-discuss has not reached a
> critical mass of contributors. The question is how we can change that.
>
> All the best
> Henning
>
> On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 12:26:07PM +0200, Jeremy via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> > Hi bitcoin-dev,
> >
> > I'm well aware that discussion of moderation on bitcoin-dev is
> > discouraged*. However, I think that we should, as a year of moderation
> > approaches, discuss openly as a community what the impact of such policy
> > has been. Making such a post now is timely given that people will have
> the
> > opportunity to discuss in-person as well as online as Scaling Bitcoin is
> > currently underway. On the suggestion of others, I've also CC'd
> > bitcoin-discuss on this message.
> >
> > Below, I'll share some of my own personal thoughts as a starter, but
> would
> > love to hear others feelings as well.
> >
> > For me, the bitcoin-dev mailing list was a place where I started
> > frequenting to learn a lot about bitcoin and the development process and
> > interact with the community. Since moderation has begun, it seems that
> the
> > messages/day has dropped drastically. This may be a nice outcome overall
> > for our sanity, but I think that it has on the whole made the community
> > less accessible. I've heard from people (a > 1 number, myself included)
> > that they now self-censor because they think they will put a lot of work
> > into their email only for it to get moderated away as trolling/spam.
> Thus,
> > while we may not observe a high rate of moderated posts, it does mean the
> > "chilling effect" of moderation still manifests -- I think that people
> not
> > writing emails because they think it may be moderated reduces the rate of
> > people writing emails which is a generally valuable thing as it offers
> > people a vehicle through which they try to think through and communicate
> > their ideas in detail.
> >
> > Overall, I think that at the time that moderation was added to the list,
> it
> > was probably the right thing to do. We're in a different place as a
> > community now, so I feel we should attempt to open up this valuable
> > communication channel once again. My sentiment is that we enacted
> > moderation to protect a resource that we all felt was valuable, but in
> the
> > process, the value of the list was damaged, but not irreparably so.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Jeremy
> >
> >
> > * From the email introducing the bitcoin-dev moderation policy,
> "Generally
> > discouraged: shower thoughts, wild speculation, jokes, +1s, non-technical
> > bitcoin issues, rehashing settled topics without new data, moderation
> >  concerns."
> >
> >
> > --
> > @JeremyRubin <https://twitter.com/JeremyRubin>
> > <https://twitter.com/JeremyRubin>
>
> > _______________________________________________
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> > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
>
>
> --
> Henning Kopp
> Institute of Distributed Systems
> Ulm University, Germany
>
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