Re: Reviving rec.arts.ascii

On 05 Apr 2002 Andreas Freise <ad...@mpq.mpg.de> wrote in
news:b7u...@adfpc.amp.uni-hannover.de: 

> Hi Graham,
> 
> Graham Drabble wrote (05 Apr 2002):
> [...]
>> The 
>> fact that it is dead is, IMO, a shame and I am interested to see
>> of there is any wish from others to get it going again.
> 
> Anything about ascii art is good and I believe a.a-a turns away
> some people who would enjoy r.a-a. Of course Don Bertino has tried
> to revive r.a-a once and failed.

Interesting that you say he failed. The Google archives show it being 
quite bus up until May 99 when it suddenly went dead. Am I missing 
something?

> Personally I believe that the
> special, sometimes trashy, character of a.a-a makes a more
> creative background than any moderated group could offer. At the
> moment there is not enough activity here (or in VK's chat?) to
> divide that further. Instead we must hope to create new interest
> and thus new artists.

Maybe something in the Big-8, which should be carried at more sights, 
would help.

> So, be prepared for a low-traffic newsgroup.
> If you think, you can stand a long dry period before customers
> come rushing in then, yes, go ahead! 
> 
> The name is right and he hasn't been seen here for ages.

I can find no evidence of him on the net since late 1999, I was hoping 
someone in here might still be in touch.
 
> Well, go ahead. I think the group should become alive! Only I fear
> that you will not have much to do as a moderator but then it
> doesn't hurt, does it? 

Not at all. I'll be using a robomod so the only reason I'll get 
involved is if someone starts abusing the group in which case I may 
elect to hand moderate there posts for a while.

What I propose if the following:

Posts must be tagged either

[PIC] For pictures
[REQ] For requests or
[DIS] For general ASCII art discussion

(There wil also be [ADMIN] for administrative things and [FAQ] but I 
only see these being used by moderators.)

The robomoderator will approve any post that has these tags (it will be 
up to the community to enforce them although blatent disregard for them 
may lead to being hand moderated) unless the poster appears on a list 
of people who the moderators have elected for hand moderation. 
Moderators will not edit articles, it will be a straight approve or 
reject.

What are peoples views on cross-posting? Due to the hassle of cross-
posting between multiple moderated groups I am going to rule that out. 
I'll have to talk to the guy who's hosting the modbot but I don't see 
why we shouldn't allow other cross-posts. Anyone else got any comments?

The system is built on the assumption that people will be reasonable 
and that moderation will only be there to control spam. If this is seen 
not to be working then it can always be changed. However the more 
strictly controlled the group the more work for the moderators so I'd 
like to keep it down if possible.

I'm still hoping to have others join me as moderators but I am willing 
to start on my own until thr group gets going well. The modbot will be 
hosted at gweep.ca by Brian Edmonds who is using it to deal with a few 
other groups as well. I've yet to discuss details about how updates to 
filter rules will take place.

There is also an offer of a gated mailing list if people want it. Don't 
know much about the details but it sounds like a good idea to me.

-- 
Graham Drabble
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