Re: PostgreSQL moderation report: 2010-1-25

Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> I'm 100% on board with getting more moderators. That's the correct
> answer. It would also help a lot if there was a web page that listed
> the current number of unmoderated things. Right now if I go to the
> page I have no way of knowing which items need attention, and which
> may have been handled by other moderators, without clicking through
> each and every section. That's a big inefficient time suck.
>

Whatever bot is generating these "moderation reports" going to the list
seems to know exactly what work needs to be done, so it sounds like the
logic is there but just not exposed on the web app.

If I'm reading between the lines here correctly, the reason this whole
moderation bit continues to die out is that the people who need the
items approved--those hosting events--can't approve their own, so they
have little incentive to get involved just to approve their competitor's
announcements. And there's no single person or small group who has
volunteered to be the backstop moderator(s) of last resort here, people
who personally need the event pipeline to always be clear for their own
purposes. Instead, the people who need the work done are not those who
are doing it, which is never sustainable. You need motivation to ensure
action.

If the following things can be arranged:

1) I'm added as a moderator and pointed toward the app
2) It's possible for me to get a daily e-mail of pending moderation
activity as a reminder
3) The list of moderators is at least exposed to the moderators, so we
can improve coordination here without dragging the whole list into it
every time

I'd then be willing to coordinate with Gabriele so that the two of us
work through the bulk of the approvals. As I suspected, the stuff he's
been shy about (like the documentation updates) I can easily chew
through if I just put a round of it into my daily routine. I'm sure
that those of us who rely upon this news channel for business purposes
can find an external "buddy" to deal with their own events to keep
everyone honest and the queue empty, if it were just obvious who is
actually doing the moderation work here. There seem to be an array of
Gregs and Joshes available for that sort of situation so long as
somebody is doing the dirty work of cleaning out the non-business
related stuff out of the queue on a near daily basis. And I'm already
dealing with a similar support operation with Gabriele we have to cover,
we'll just roll this into there.

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Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant Baltimore, MD
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
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