Re: soc.senior.mod ???


<anoldfart4@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 00:50:14 -0500, Russ Weber
> <rusweber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>>Is it worth trying to form a moderated soc.senior.mod newsgroup?
>>
>>With no human moderator who could be accused of favoritism.
>>
>>Cross-posted articles would still go to all newsgroups listed,
>>including soc.senior.issues (to avoid charges of censorship).
>>
>>But when the new newsgroup, soc.senior.mod, is included in cross-posted
>>articles, robot software for soc.senior.mod would reject that article.
>>The only articles that would be forwarded to soc.senior.mod would be
>>articles that were posted ONLY to soc.senior.mod.
>>
>>
>>It would surely be a long struggle to get enough votes to form this new
>>newsgroup, but it might be worth it if there was enough support for it.
>>
>>
>>Russ
>
> I mostly just lurk on here, but I must state that I'd like to see a
> moderated group too, but there are more problems than just
> crossposting in this and most other NGs. There are troublesome people
> that only human moderation can stop, and I am not referring to someone
> that posts an occasional offcolor joke, but rather referring to
> repeated harassment. Then of course theres all the usual junk like
> spam and people that think newsgroups are places to advertise their
> ebay sales, and much more. This NG has turned to almost entirely
> politics, and the name should now be soc.politics.senior.issues, and
> another moderated group should exist that dont allow any politics. I
> like to talk *some* politics too, but there are other things in life
> too.
> I guess I jsut dont see stopping crossposting as the ultimate
> solution. It would greatly help, but is not the end of problems.
> Then too, there are somethings posted on here that benifit from
> crossposting to another NG. For example home repair posts, being
> crossed to alt.home.repair.
>
> However, I strongly favor the MOD group, but think human intervention
> will be strongly needed, and it will have t be someone that is
> non-partisan, not offended by normal usage of cuss words, and who will
> be tolerant of posts that they personally do not like. Yet they will
> remove all spam and garbage, and will issue warnings and eventual bans
> to repeat abusers. This would probably be the hardest job of all.
>

It would be so nice to ditch the political rants and actually stay on topic
instead of being afflicted with those that are *so* certain that we just
have to have their rants posted all over.


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