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Subject: 3rd RFD: news.admin.moderation moderated

From: Tim Skirvin <tskirvin@killfile.org>

Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:24:05 +0000 (UTC)

Message-ID: <nan.20070315182405$2a31@killfile.org>



                      REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)

                 moderated group news.admin.moderation



This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the creation of the

moderated Usenet newsgroup, news.admin.moderation.





NEWSGROUPS LINE: news.admin.moderation



news.admin.moderation	Technical and social issues of newsgroup moderation. (Moderated)





RATIONALE: news.admin.moderation



Currently, newsgroup moderation is discussed primarily in meta-discussions

throughout the Big-8 hierarchies, especially in news.groups.* and

news.admin.net-abuse.*.  However, none of these newsgroups is truly

appropriate for these discussions.  A dedicated newsgroup would help

consolidate and nurture these conversations.





CHARTER:



news.admin.moderation is a moderated newsgroup for discussion of newsgroup

moderation.  Some suitable topics for discussion include:



  * how to be a good moderator

  * moderation "best practices" - for example, how/whether articles should

    be edited before approval; should articles be re-directed to other

    newsgroups; how should article rejections be handled

  * developing appropriate moderation policies and implementations

  * methods for filling vacancies in a moderation team

  * moderation software and moderation hosting services

  * whether moderation is appropriate for a specific topic

  * what to do if the moderator of a group you use disappears, and other 

    problems with specific moderated groups

  * whether it would be appropriate to propose demoderating a specific

    group (the actual proposal, if made, would be to the appropriate

    configuration newsgroup)



Unsuitable topics include:



  * discussion of moderation of web forums, mail lists, etc, except in

    as much as they pertain to newsgroup moderation

  * actual proposals for a new moderated newsgroup (such discussion

    should occur in news.groups.proposals or other configuration

    newsgroups)

  * "moderation in general: good or bad?"

  * flames, attacks and derogatory comments or nicknames



Minimal crossposts may be allowed at the discretion of the moderators.





MODERATION POLICY: news.admin.moderation



news.admin.moderation is team-moderated, based on the above criteria.

Ideally, most posts will be automatically approved by a robot moderator,

to improve post turnaround time and reduce moderator load.



Users will be added to a group whitelist after a small number (typically

1-5) of hand-moderated posts.  Users may be removed from the whitelist at

the discretion of the moderators.  Site and subject watchlists and

blocklists may be implemented to monitor group content and to stop

forgers and abuse; posts so marked will (generally) be kept for manual

approval, and not automatically rejected.



A current list of posting criteria will be published regularly.



Posting with a non-replyable or "munged" address is strongly discouraged.

If you feel that you must use a munged address, you are encouraged to

append ".invalid" to the end of the munged email address to indicate

that the address is not deliverable even when ".invalid" is stripped from

the end; in any case, the moderators will not attempt to unmunge any

addresses.  Users who do not munge their email address will be notified of

rejected submissions via email.  Note that submissions may be filtered to

remove spam, spews, and other attacks.





MODERATOR INFO: news.admin.moderation



Lead Moderator:            <no@address.invalid>

Technical Moderator:      Tim Skirvin <tskirvin@killfile.org>

Moderator:                Nigel Sixsmith <n6smith@gmail.com>

Moderator:                Kevin A. Cannon <kcannon@insurgent.org>

Moderator:                Marcel Beaudoin <marcel.beaudoin@gmail.com>

Moderator:                Charles Calvert <nam@celticwolf.net>

Backup Moderator:         Steve Bonine <spb@pobox.com>

Backup Moderator:         Vito Kuhn <fam.admin@gmail.com>

Backup Moderator:         Doug Freyburger <dfreybur@yahoo.com>

Backup Moderator:         Nancy Leitner <gnn4ever@surewest.net>

Advisory Moderator:       Kathy Morgan <kmorgan@aptalaska.net>



Article Submissions:      news-admin-moderation@killfile.org

Administrative Contact:   news-admin-moderation-request@killfile.org





PROCEDURE:



For more information on the newsgroup creation process, please see:



  http://www.big-8.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=policies:creation



Those who wish to influence the development of this RFD and its final

resolution should subscribe to news.groups.proposals and participate in the

relevant threads in that newsgroup.  This is both a courtesy to groups in

which discussion of creating a new group is off-topic as well as the best

method of making sure that one's comments or criticisms are heard.



All discussion of active proposals should be posted to news.groups.proposals.

To this end, the 'Followup-To' header of this RFD has been set to this group.



If desired by the readership of closely affected groups, the discussion

may be crossposted to those groups, but care must be taken to ensure

that all discussion appears in news.groups.proposals as well.



We urge those who would like to read or post in the proposed newsgroup

to make a comment to that effect in this thread; we ask proponents to

keep a list of such positive posts with the relevant message ID

(e.g., Barney Fife, <4JGdnb60fsMzHA7ZnZ2dnUVZ_rWdnZ2d@sysmatrix.net>).

Such lists of positive feedback for the proposal may constitute good

evidence that the group will be well-used if it is created.









DISTRIBUTION:



This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:



  news.announce.newgroups

  news.groups.proposals

  news.admin.announce

  news.software.nntp

  news.admin.net-abuse.policy



The proponent will also post pointers to:



  moderators@isc.org mailing list

  news.groups

  news.admin.censorship





PROPONENT:



Tim Skirvin <tskirvin@killfile.org>







CHANGE HISTORY:



2007-02-22     1st RFD

2007-03-01     2nd RFD

2007-03-15     3rd RFD

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