[Aslml] Moderation update
Sam Belcher
sambelcher at cablespeed.com
Sun Nov 2 20:50:50 PST 2003
>
> At 11:10 PM 11/1/2003, Paul Ferraro wrote:
> [snip]
> >4. One to a few word replies sent back along with the ordinal
> >post. Examples are
> >"Great!", "Do'h", or even "Nice AAR". That sort of stuff need not go to
> >the list. It clogs the digest version and adds nothing to the original
> >post.
>
> In the case of AARs I strongly disagree. It adds _encouragement_ to the
> AAR poster. If you post an AAR, and all you see in response is one person
> pointing out your mistakes because ten other responses got filtered out
> because they were too short, would you feel like posting another
> AAR? Probably not. Please do not filter "attaboys".
The point is we don't need to INCLUDE the entire AAR to say "attaboy".
Don't do it. If you do, the moderators can delete the entire "attaboy" or
just the duplicate info...
Sam
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