Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!porthos.rutgers.edu!webber From: webber@porthos.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Unbiased moderator volunteers (Re: The death of USENET was ( Re: Moderated USENET (was Re: The death of USENET))) Message-ID: Date: 20 Jun 88 06:40:32 GMT References: <2805@rpp386.UUCP> <28.UUL1.3#935@aocgl.UUCP> <4542@gryphon.CTS.COM> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 35 In article <4542@gryphon.CTS.COM>, richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: > In article <28.UUL1.3#935@aocgl.UUCP> tmanos@aocgl.UUCP (Theodore W. Manos) writes: > >Do I finally hear some peace and quiet coming??? :-) Here's my vote too. > >I also will offer to moderate a group - even one I don't read! > ... > Hmm. Can I make the tacit assumption that if you don't read a group it's > because you arn't interested in the content ? Could I even go so far as > to say you don't know anything about the subject ? > > Hey, makes sense to me. > > I offer to moderate rec.guns. Really. Glad you finally saw the light. A moderator who actually read what they were moderator would be BIASED. Look at the vast improvement to news.announce.conferences now that we have a moderator who doesn't know the difference between a conference and a tradeshow. Of course, since I have an opinion about everything, it is difficult for me to find a group that I could moderate without bias. However, since I have the least opinion about the current news group creation process, I guess I could moderate news.groups. Anything for a good cause. By the way, since my moderation policy will be simple (all messages must contain a prime number of words in their text and signatures no longer than one line), there is no need for all of this stuff to flow thru me. I will dub knight-moderators at any site that has a user who can list the prime numbers between 300 and 30,000 and count up to one. Knight-moderators will be permitted to include their names on the approved lines instead of mine when posting messages (either theirs or those of others) into news.groups. Un-dubbed people who make such postings or dubbed people whose dubbing has been revoked who make such postins will be viewed as forgers and will be added to the list of people who receive a copy of every one of my postings as mail messages. -------- BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber)