Re: Jawaid Bazyar On Vacation

[shack@crash.cts.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <36utfu$scf@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>,
Jim Wong <jd-wong@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>bazyar@netcom.com (Jawaid Bazyar) writes:
>>I come back depends on several things, one of which is the initiation
>>of serious discussions into moderating the entire comp.sys.apple2.*
>>heirarchy.
>
>I really haven't been following this particular ongoing flame war, but
>this has got to be one of the most ludicrous ideas I've ever heard --
>there's simply too much traffic, even at this late stage of the Apple
>II's lifetime, to even consider moderating the comp.sys.apple2
>hierarchy.  Doing so would effectively kill interesting discussion and
>swamp the poor guy who ended up being moderator.

No joke. Moderation sucks mightily. 

I used to read soc.culture.history.war.world-war-ii but I don't bother any
more since it's moderated ostensibly to prevent holocaust-never-happened crap
and similar flamebait. But the discussion suffers because of it. The chumps
who moderate the group never posted my articles so I just gave up on it.

>In my opinion, moderation is only appropriate for groups like
>comp.binaries.mac and comp.sys.mac.announce that see relatively few
>posts and are not primarily discussion oriented.

When a vote can pass to moderate groups like csa2, I think usenet is doomed.
Happily I don't think it can happen. We're better off having people who
can't take the heat wimp out than running everyone off with moderation.
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Randy Shackelford                                Huh huh, that was cool.
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