DISCUSSION: RFD rec.art.ascii moderated

>From: nat...@loreli.ftl.fl.us (Sean Puckett)

>I'm in favor of rec.arts.ascii

Great.

>I very much enjoy the posts on alt.a-a, and would like the group to be spread
>far and wide on the big 7 hierarchy, simply because I'd like to see *more*
>art!

Exactly, the wider the propagation, the more artists will be reached and the
more artists are reached, the more art will be contributed.

>I'm not in favor of moderation, however.  I get the feeling that many
>people are leery of moderated groups, perhaps because I myself am.

Granted. I have seen the case of a moderator who only posts about 5% of all
the posts sent to him.  That is dictatorship, not moderation.

From what Bob Allison has explained so far about how he views the moderation
of the group, a large portion of the traffic would go through (say 80% as a
rough guess).  The rest would be referred to the FAQ for answers or would be
told that their posts were inappropriate.

There are only two things that can be done to improve the quality of the
posts in a particular group:
    1)  increase the number of relevant posts
    2)  decrease the number of irrelevant posts

IMO, a moderator that removes the 'bad' posts (such as the ones that can
start flame wars) is doing a great service to the newsgroup community since
such posts often attract an additional 5, 10, 20 or more irrelevant
posts.

>Everyone's voice counts, even if they haven't got much to add.

And to that I'll add that, IMO subscribers to rec.arts.ascii would benefit
from the form of moderation that Bob Allison proposes.

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Normand Veilleux
nve...@emr1.emr.ca