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From: nazgul@apollo.uucp (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: net.news.group,soc.singles
Subject: Re: Saving net.singles--what for?
Message-ID: <303f1187.46@apollo.uucp>
Date: Sun, 21-Sep-86 17:36:53 EDT
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Reply-To: nazgul@apollo.UUCP (Kee Hinckley)
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In article <215@hao.UUCP> woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) writes:
> I personally think net.singles needs to
> be moderated, but that seems to be a minority opinion. Finding a moderator
> that would be acceptable would be tough. I can't think of anyone who reads
> and posts here regularly who hasn't had at least one controversial viewpoint
> (myself included).

A moderator would certainly be nice, but I can't think of any way of doing
it that would not result in a full-time job.  The current flow seems to be
about 300 or so articles a week.  The other problem with moderation is it
makes it harder to respond to individual items or people, something that is
much more important in net.singles where the number of people and the number
of topics is greater than in most moderated newsgroups.  I think net.singles
moderation will have to wait for either a *real* good AI program or a payed
moderator.  (How about it folks, I'll do it for a buck an article, any other
bids?! :-)

                                                       -kee
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I'm not sure which upsets me more; that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.