Re: Bye

Bob Badour wrote:
Marshall wrote:
Bob Badour wrote:
What happens in a moderated newsgroup is the
knowledgeable people either stay away, as they mostly
do here already, or they get blocked for pointing out
how stupid and ignorant some of the posters are.

I can believe that's possible, but it's certainly not
the only possibility. I have seen moderation work quite
well.

How do you know what quality of material was excluded? How
do you know what quality of people stayed away?

Hehe, yeah good point, pithy. One example I was considering
was the pair:

comp.lang.c++
comp.lang.c++.moderated

Now I haven't frequented these in a while; but, I recall the
..moderated having superior signal-to-noise compared to the
unmoderated version. And it did /appear/ that the moderators
rejected much trollish drivel. However that is only based on
comparison to the unmoderated group and, as you point out,
that is not sufficient evidence.

-- Keith --

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