Re: A call for a moderated AUE (was: Re: OT Pounds)

On 26 Jul 2005, John Dean posted thus:

> Surely the democratic thing would be to leave this group to those who
> want it and create a new group aue-mod and let those who want that go
> for it. It worked, apparently, for the screenplay group (as DJ would
> confirm)

It worked amazingly well for two reasons: One, without exception,
every single RR of MWS backed the idea, some more hesitantly than other
but they were all on board; two, the only form that moderation takes is
the prohibition, implemented by a robo-moderator, of crossposted
articles. MWS is now a Jai-free zone, but it is decidedly *not* flame-
free, off-topic-free, stupidity-free, chat-free, flirting-free, nor
whinging-free. Which is exactly what we wanted--our newsgroup back the
way it was, warts and all, before the Jai infestation.

So anything new around here?

Next time, leave a light on for me, wouldja?

DJ
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