Personally I feel the message has been delivered. I hope the need for moderation or other forms of censorship will diminish.

Anyone guilty of spamming the list for what ever reason should realise from the discussion it is not in your interest to spam. Your audience will either decamp to another list or add you to their spam file. Your message and reason for posting will be ignored. Your reputation will be tarnished. Your influence diminished.

Responsible use of the list for its intended purpose will benefit everyone.

Regards

Dave.

From: David Braunholtz <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tuesday, 18 March 2014, 17:32
Subject: Re: For Moderator and ALL: Do we need [blog announcements] on Allstat ?

How about a rule allowing bloggers, and  job-agencies, no more than say one 'summary' post per week ?  I find the frequent 'rash' of different agencies all announcing what is clearly the same job, a little wearing ...

I also agree with Sander that V.Granville's posts are of uniformly low quality/interest - but this is my subjective opinion, it is hard to judge objectively (some allstatters out there may find his posts the highlight of the week), so maybe the best that can be done is limit the amount of regular traffic of this type ?

David

From: sander wagner <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Saturday, 15 March 2014, 20:00
Subject: Re: For Moderator and ALL: Do we need [blog announcements] on Allstat ?

i for one support the "free allstat from granville" motion, for one because it is an abuse of the forum and also because of the extremely low (sometimes quite misleading) quality of the content he posts. There was the sketch of a laffer curve derived without data, which granville took as evidence that gvt revenue goes down at around 30% taxes (this from a dta-driven person)  then there was this recent completely crazy piece on vaccination, where i don't even know where to start...
well and then there was the recent self-promotion. Actually thought about unsubscribing from allstat because of this.


On 15 March 2014 08:02, Nick Sofroniou <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I have also been uncomfortable with the way Allstat is being used in this way. Do we need to have an announcement every time someone updates their regular blog. Clearly the intention is to generate web traffic to the posters' website. Allstat is not a discussion list so why should we receive these personal viewpoints. In my view this is quite different from someone asking a query and perhaps posting a summary of replies back to the list.

I get the digest version of Allstat to keep my email inbox less cluttered, but instead I have to wade through all this spam within the digest message.

Please moderators, do something about this before we get 10 regular bloggers realising that they can up their web traffic using Allstat.

Nick

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Date:    Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:27:12 +0000
From:    "gilbert.mackenzie" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: For Moderator and ALL: Do we need Granville on Allstat ?

Dear All

Most people recognize that Granville's contributions are a form of
advertising.

The question I raise is simply should this be allowed on Allstat?

My own view is that we do not need these contributions especially given
the frequency
of postings.

I never read his material - which is automatically directed to a junk
directory.

But this is only one view - so what do others think ?

Best

Gilbert
> Vincent Granville:
>
> Your "best-kept" secret is actually quite well-known. The method is
> just Gram-Schmidt orthogonalisation, something I learnt from John
> Tukey at Princeton University more than 40 years ago. I like your
> chutzpah, but I don't think it's superior in any way to the lm()
> function in R.
>
> regards....Don
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