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Problem | Result for the community we are trying to achieve | Moderation comment | |||
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Repetitive posting | Slow the conversation down and make room for participants who read more slowly or have less time. | The comment "<comment>" ...has been made before in other words by the same poster, and is repetitive in this context. If you wished to state something new, please reformulate and resend. | |||
Too frequent posting (n > 5) | Slow the conversation down and make room for participants who read more slowly or have less time. | <none – Wait till the next day to mod the e-mail through.> or This is your <nth> time commenting today. If you still feel the need to send this tomorrow, please resend it then. | |||
Off-topic but otherwise useful posting | Keep conversations on the topics the list is intended for. Improve the signal-to-noise ratio on the list to make it more useful. Move comments that can be constructive to the place where they will have positive impact. | The comment "<comment>" ...would be more appropriate on the list <list>. Please send it there instead. | |||
Not helpful; no actionable or useful content. (related to off-topic posting) | Keep conversations on the topics the list is intended for. Improve the signal-to-noise ratio on the list to make it more useful. | Your comment has been rejected as not helpful in moving the project forward. | |||
Comment can reasonably be expected to provoke an angry response from a significant portion of the people on the list. | Help all participants collaborate in a constructive manner, while still allowing substantive disagreement. | The phrase "<phrase>" ...uses too much emotional language and can easily be misunderstood. Please reformulate without the offending phrase and resend. | Comment reveals private information in a more public forum than it was originally shared. | Make it possible for participants to share information in private that needs to be kept private, without putting that information at risk of exposure. | The phrase "<phrase>" ...reveals information originally posted to a more private list. Revealing private information on a more public list, does not respect the reasonable privacy expectations of our list participants. Please reformulate your response in a manner which protects private information and then resend. |
Post violates point 5 of the Apache CoC:
| Create a safe environment in which difficult discussions are possible. | Your post violates the Apache Code of Conduct (found here: https://www.apache.org/foundation/policies/conduct.html). This post is inappropriate on this and every other Apache list. Further violations of the Apache Code of Conduct may be escalated to the president and may have serious consequences. | |||
Post contains ad hominem unnecessarily used to emphasize a position. (For example "Your claim is mendacious.") | Help all participants collaborate in a constructive manner, while still allowing substantive disagreement. | The phrase "<phrase>" ...contains an inappropriate attack on one or more fellow discussion participants. Please remove or reformulate the phrase in your e-mail and resend your comments. For example, if you wrote "Your claim is mendacious" you could replace that phrase with "Your claim is false" or simply delete it. |