Subject: Re: moderation (was Re: Nagging Naggum) From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2002 12:01:33 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3219307291125036@naggum.net> * Louis Theran <theran@cs.umass.edu> | It would also preclude many posts from a number of popular participants | under any sane moderation scheme. Why have a moderated group if it admits | discussion of the GPL and posts with 10 lines of lisp content and 90 | covering something else entirely? Moderation is used to keep people in moderate touch with reality. We have already seen that some people think this newsgroup is _about_ their personal feelings for other people as such, but that is not the case. E.g., you would never see articles by Janos Blazi or Israel Ray Thomas or Jean-François Brouillet were this a moderated forum. Good moderation does not keep the flames out -- it keeps the _irritants_ out so there is no need for flames. | Of the three topics you mention, one would be wildly off-topic if the | charter were similar to comp.lang.c.moderated. There should be no danger of that. Few moderated newsgroups are alike, just as few newsgroups are alike. | Killfiles are easier to implement and require no discussion. What is the point with the perfect killfile if you cannot tell anyone? /// --