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Subject: RESULT: news.admin.moderation will be created

From: The Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org>

Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:40:33 +0000 (UTC)

Message-ID: <nan.20070331024033$66fa@killfile.org>



                                 RESULT

                 news.admin.moderation will be created



The Last Call for Comments on 24 Mar 2007 initiated a five-day period for

final comments.  Following this comment period, the Big-8 Management Board

has decided by consensus to create the newsgroup news.admin.moderation.



This group will be created on 04 Apr 2007.





NEWSGROUPS LINE: news.admin.moderation



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





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:           Nigel Sixsmith <n6smith@gmail.com>

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

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>



If the moderation team decides that more members are needed, they may

post an invitation for new volunteers.  New members must be approved by

simple majority vote of the current moderation team. A member of the

moderation panel may be expelled by 2/3 majority vote of the other team

members.





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

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





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

2007-03-24     4th RFD/LCC

2007-03-30     Results

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