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''Pointless musing follows:''

Is a wiki inherently a ModeratedForum?

A traditional moderated mailing list or newsgroup has these properties:
# What participants say can be unsaid by other participants
# This ability is limited to a subset of the population
# Other participants see only the result, after screening

More common on online bulletin boards is this model:
# What participants say can be unsaid by other participants
# This ability is limited to a subset of the population

without #3, so the public sees everything until such time as the elite moderators do their stuff and remove some material from circulation.

A wiki works on this model:
# What participants say can be unsaid by other participants

Even where there are filthy steeeenking sysops who are "more equal than others", a wiki is essentially a bulletin board where everybody is a moderator, and everybody sees all comments until such time as some get screened out.

This isn't meant as an apology for superpowerful sysop users, just a self-reminder that wikis shouldn't be treated as ''unmoderated'' fora. They are inherently moderated, with some ImpliedResponsibility on the users' parts.

''Yes - if anything they are ''supermoderated'' - or at least they can be. It's all about the culture.''

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