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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 22 May 1994.
Re: rec.arts.scarecrow ?

Re: rec.arts.scarecrow ?

>On the other hand, these FAQs have been pretty rare recently.
>Filtering them out isn't going to substantially improve any perceived
>signal-to-noise ratio.  So if this is the main thing that Scarecrow is
>going to do, I'm not sure why moderation is necessary.

All along, it's been stated that if r.a.a (mod) were to pass, it wouldbe a
"light" moderation. Now I know that some people have stated that there's
no such thing as "light" moderation, but there *really* is.

What it really means is that Bob would remove ONLY the things that 99%
of the subscibers would not like to read. For example, a picture might
be requested 10 times inside two weeks (which happens occationally). THAT
picture would become a FRP (Frequently Requested Picture), and Bob would
possibly choose to cut any further requests/posts in favour of personally
responding with the FAQ and maybe even the pic. If however, at a later date
the picture had not been seen for a while, it would loose it's FRP status,
and would possibly be posted (and why not).

All anyone would be missing 100% of the time is the *really* off target
posts. The ever-popular MAKE.MONEY.FAST posts would be a thing of the past,
as would any other similar post. Is this "really" moderation? It's really
just a global "kill file" (no offence Bob :).

I think it's just nice to have the moderation option there in THIS case.
If Bob saw the noise dropping down, he could easily put it into "auto".
I find this whole "moderation=no freedom of speak" argument more of an
excuse rather than a reason.

But it's up to the individual to decide.
Row.

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From: dlj...@giaeb.cc.monash.edu.au (Dwayne Jarvis)
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Subject: Re: rec.arts.scarecrow ?
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