Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!sco!davidbe
From: davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Unbiased moderator volunteers (Re: The death of USENET was ( Re: Moderated USENET (was Re: The death of USENET)))
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Date: 20 Jun 88 17:45:12 GMT
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Reply-To: davidbe@sco.COM (The Cat in the Hat)
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And I volunteer to moderate rec.music.rock (since it looks like it will be
created).  I'm sure everyone will be completely understanding about my
beliefs in just what rock is...and will excuse the fact that I won't allow
any crossposting (because folk isn't rock, classical isn't rock, the Beatles
have their own newsgroup), that discussions of CD's won't be allowed,
and that funk, reggae, punk, and modern music won't be discussed because they
are "not rock".  And I'll keep the volume way down by not allowing every third
posting, thereby cutting out a third of the volume in my group.

Hey, it'll be the one newsgroup I'll enjoy reading.

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But seriously folks...The consequences of moderating the net will be these:
Fewer new topics of discussion, the possiblity of never having a new topic
show up (i.e. Prince in the rec.music.rock example), and the extreme overload
of the moderator.  Not to mention the EXTREME added cost in terms of connect
time and phone costs for the moderator.

Moderating newsgroups works best for groups with a specific agenda, a moderator
with the time to moderate, or a group that goes outside of the network.

It works worst for groups with HIGH volume, high emotional content (such as
talk.politics or news.groups) or high amounts of crossposting.

Universally applied it won't work at all.

Who wants to moderate talk.bizarre?
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