Re: PostgreSQL moderation report: 2010-1-25

Dave Page wrote:
> I don't think most of the moderators generally post anything of their
> own - and a lot of what is posted it not necessarily company-related
> anyway (think project announcements, doc comments etc).
>

That's what I was suggesting is the crux of the problem. If you have
moderators who ultimately have no strong personal interest in making
sure the news is caught up, so that their own additions will then show
up in a timely way, it's not really surprising that the work doesn't get
done all the time. Since I do have things of my own I'd like to see
posted, from training to community events like the Hot Standby User's
Group session we had this month, if I have to keep clearing out the
project and doc stuff to make that all flow I'll do that.

And you don't have to imagine what my motivation is--I just told you.
Our esteemed other Greg made an upstream comment about how paying people
to moderate would improve things. I feel like everyone who is
advertising training classes through the events page is getting paid,
and therefore should be volunteering something to offset what they're
getting out of that community resource. I'd rather be part of the group
of companies that do just that, rather than be someone who benefits from
this service but doesn't do anything to contribute to its maintenance.
Probably better not to dwell on examples of that behavior already going
on here.

> With the greatest of respect, I've lost count of the number of times
> people (including many that are as valued as a contributor as you are)
> have said similar things in the past.

Obviously unexpected things happen. What I will promise you is that if
my situation changes, or for some reason realize I'm going to drop out
of doing moderation work for a while, I will announce that and get
myself removed from the list. I don't want to become part of Devrim's
list of ineffective moderators who just complicate the process.

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Greg Smith 2ndQuadrant Baltimore, MD
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
greg(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com www.2ndQuadrant.com