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From: ccs020@ucdavis.UUCP (Kevin Chu)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d,net.news.group
Subject: Re: tired of Patty O'Furniture, etc
Message-ID: <287@ucdavis.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 19:50:51 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 12 19:50:51 1985
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Please: don't use long titles

In article <973@lll-crg.ARpA> bandy@lll-crg.ARpA (Andrew Scott Beals) writes:
> I want to change all of this. I am volunteering for being the moderator
> (fascist) of mod.jokes. In addition, I would like to delete net.jokes.
> (if free-form exists, people aren't going to post to the mod group.. also
> they might take offense at someone telling them that "Patty O'Furniture"
> an original joke)
> 
> My plan is to weed out duplicates. I also plan on keeping an archive of
> everything that I get.
> 
> Suggestions? Comments?
> 

While I agree that net.jokes has it's share of problems, mod.jokes
just won't work.  (Proof by intuition :-) 

1) With the amount of flow net.jokes has, you as moderator would have
   a full time job reading jokes.

2) Your taste in jokes could become a factor.  Personal taste is
   something that doesn't matter in something like mod.sources.

3) Would you rotate the jokes that YOU found offensive?  I don't
   know you, you might find everything offensive, or nothing
   offensive.  Are you going to insert "ROT 13" into every subject
   line that doesn't have it?

4) If you get sick, go on vacation, want to spend time with
   your family, or do your (paid) job, will we have to wait
   until you're done before we can read the jokes?


I, too, sometimes get angry when I see elephant jokes or rotated
jokes with nothing in the subject.  However, solving the problem
by making mod.jokes would ruin the good part of net.jokes.  I think
that the new users need to be educated more before being allowed to
post.  With a set-up like USENET, there is bound to be repeat posts.
However, just because you have already heard a joke, doesn't mean
everyone else hasn't.  Who knows, maybe that last joke you thought
was funny has been around for 10 years?

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	--Kevin Chu
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