On 15 April 2013 21:00, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:52:54PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>>
>>> > 2ndQuadrant has experienced significant delays in at least 3 cases
>>> > also. There is definitely a problem somewhere there.
>>>
>>> The delay is called "volunteer moderators who have day jobs".
>>>
>>> > Perhaps we should make all posts wait the same length of time, to
>>> > allow reasonable time to decide whether posts are suitable? 72 hours
>>> > seems like a reasonable time for this.
>>>
>>> Who is going to do this strictly time-limited approving?
>>
>> So it auto-approves after 72 hours? I found this proposal vague.
>
> If anything automatic were to happen after 72 hours, the reasonable
> thing would be a rejection.
*because* volunteers have day jobs, I was suggesting that we put in a
time delay so that even if approved, it still takes 72 hours to take
effect. And of course be default reject, not default approve.
That way nobody will notice that some things take 10 mins and others
extended numbers of days.
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