OWNERSHIP: Fwd: Status of moderator discussion

["William B. Ryan" <w_b_ryan@yahoo.com>]

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• Subject: Status of moderator discussion
• From: Dan Bell <dbell@kent.edu>
• Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 00:18:30 -0400
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Friends,

To date I have received responses from nine of you, out of the 28 contacted.

One appeared to oppose having a moderator.
One did not express opposition, but did not see the need for one.
Seven expressed support for having a moderator.

Also, as you may have seen, Alan has withdrawn his offer to moderate. Rodney
mentioned Steve Nieman as a possibility. I don't believe I have heard 
directly from
Steve on his willingness to serve.

As for the conditions that Rodney lists for his own willingness to serve, 
there are
two constraints.

One is a technical constraint. COG currently has no funding to maintain
the Virtual Think Tank. The OEOC is directly subsidizing it with our staff 
time and
equipment. KSU computer support staff have graciously been willing to provide
minimal support for carrying out tasks that are beyond the OEOC's capabilities.

OEOC staff can, for example, make changes on the content of the web site pages,
and the COG library.

Automatic processes like archiving messages require KSU
support staff. Whenever I need to delete a message from an archive, I have 
to request
this of a KSU support staff person. Setting up the process that sends all 
messages
to a moderator for approval requires a KSU support staff person. Since we 
do not pay
for this, we cannot initiate a process that would require frequent requests 
for their time.
The best we can offer is to ask the KSU support staff to spend some time 
setting up
the approval process for a moderator. Once this is done, the moderator will 
be able to,
without requiring KSU support staff intervention:

a) stop personal attacks
b) insist on people keeping to the subject (capital ownership)

The moderator will not be able to:

c) clean up the files

The second constraint is that of gaining the authority from those who have 
been active
on the list over the past 12 months. Any decisions to empower someone to act as
a moderator, will require that a minimum of 14 of the 28 active 
participants express an
opinion about this, and that a majority of those expressing an opinion are 
in support
of the proposed moderator.

Cheers,

Dan

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Dan Bell
Senior Program Coordinator
Ohio Employee Ownership Center
Kent State University
Kent, OH 44242
(330) 672-0333 << Direct number!
(330) 672-3028 general office number
(330) 672-4063 fax
dbell@kent.edu
http://www.kent.edu/oeoc/
http://cog.kent.edu

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