On Mon, 2014-09-15 at 10:00 -0700, Damian Johnson wrote: > > This is to the side of your main point (with which I am largely in > > agreement), and I mean this in the most serious and respectful way > > possible: can you point to statistics, metrics, data that support this > > point? > > > > I suspect the opposite is true, but I very much want to know the real > > facts, in so far as they can be obtained. I know the anecdotal and > > theoretical arguments on both sides, but I find facts much harder to come > > by. > > > > I would and will be happy to have my suspicions proven wrong. But isn't > > part of the point (and problem) of Tor and similar hidden services that > > nobody is really in a position to know the truth about critical > > propositions like this one? > > Andrew, Tor's executive director, works directly with domestic abuse > victim organizations quite a bit so he could likely talk to this. As > for stats, I'm not sure what kind of numbers you mean but obviously > with a decentralized anonymity network we don't have figures for how > it's used. :) > > As to Ted's point about list moderation, Karsten and I have been > managing the lists from a Mailman perspective but neither of us are > interested in policing threads. I hope tor-talk@ stays civil enough > that it doesn't require moderation but if it doesn't then someone else > (would need to be well known by us within the community) would need to > take that role. I've seen Andrew comment on threads saying "I'm killing this thread" from time to time -- I think this moderation has been extremely helpful in the past, and if Andrew has gotten too busy to participate in gardening the mailing lists, I hope his successors keep up this practice. Just to clarify. - Ted -- Sent from Ubuntu
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