Re: request new group: Comp.sys.apple2.idiotic.flamewars.

[pfg@yallara.cs.rmit.EDU.AU (Paul Francis Gilbert)]

ut551@freenet.victoria.bc.ca (Bruce R. Baker) writes:

>Well, how about a moderated usegroup?  That is the only way we will keep 
>the flames off the message board.  THis has been discussed on Genie, I 
>know.

>-- Bruce from Houston
>Have a good day and God bless.

I think that the trouble would be in finding a truly impartial moderator.
For example, I shudder to think of Nathan Mates getting moderation control,
and some of the other are also emminently usuitable.

For example, with the recent Tangle Tales topic, there have some who are
virently against it (since it is a perceived piracy). Should we grant
moderation control to someone like that? Myself, whilst I am against 
commercial pirating, I see nothing morally wrong in having a copy of a an
old apple game when the company that made it no longer exists. Would we
want a moderater who would delete these sort of topics just because he was
biased in one direction?

Moderation requires a great deal of thought, and is usually the last resort
[in the case of retro-moderation of an existing unmoderated newsgroup].

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Paul Gilbert           | pfg@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au
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