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From: Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>

Subject: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: rec.arts.sf.reviews

Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 02:18:58 EDT

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              MODERATOR VACANCY INVESTIGATION (MVI)

              moderated group rec.arts.sf.reviews



This is a formal Moderator Vacancy Investigation (MVI), begun because

moderated newsgroup rec.arts.sf.reviews is not functioning,

and may have been abandoned by its moderator(s).



This investigation will attempt to verify the reasons for non-function,

and may result in the removal of the group or the selection and instal-

lation of a new moderator.  In practice, the Big-8 Management Board

considers the third alternative--changing the status of the group from

moderated to unmoderated--as likely to cause more harm than good.



RATIONALE:



According to Google's archive the last regular post was approved on

2004-12-07. The last regular crosspost (approved by the moderators of

rec.arts.movies.reviews) was published 2005-04-26.



A probe message resulted in a bounce.



sf-reviews@postmodern.com

  (generated from rec-arts-sf-reviews@moderators.isc.org)

  SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<sf-reviews@postmodern.com>:

  host penguin.postmodern.com [75.101.18.162]: 550 5.1.1

  <sf-reviews@postmodern.com>... User unknown



NEWSGROUPS LINE:



rec.arts.sf.reviews	Reviews of science fiction/fantasy/horror works. (Moderated)



DISTRIBUTION:



news.announce.newgroups

news.groups.proposals

rec.arts.sf.reviews

rec.arts.sf.misc



CHARTER OF REC.ARTS.SF.REVIEWS



  rec.arts.sf-reviews will be a moderated newsgroup, under shared

  moderation, whose purpose is to distribute reviews and critical 

  reviews of works of interest to the science fiction/fantasy/horror 

  community.  



  "Works" includes but is not limited to:  books, short stories, 

  movies, "graphic novels," and any other publically-available media.



  "Of interest to the sf/f/h community" will be interpreted

  liberally by the sitting moderator.  The discussion period for

  the creation of this group has led to the conclusion that nonfiction 

  or other kinds of fiction by and/or about sf/f/h writers would be 

  permitted, as well as non-fiction of a sort related to one of the 

  above (e.g., speculative science books or mythographies).  



  Reviews of individual episodes or issues of continuing TV series, 

  comic books, etc., would most likely _not_ be permitted; however, 

  reviews of such series as a whole, or of large "arcs" of such

  series, would most likely be permitted.  As noted, however, this 

  would be up to the judgement of the sitting moderator, as influenced

  by the readership.



  Multiple reviews of the same work(s) will be welcome, as will

  single reviews of multiple works.  Comments on reviews will be 

  passed to the newsgroup on a _highly_ selective basis:  generally, 

  they must say something new about the work, rather than simply 

  discussing the review.  This is not intended to stifle debate 

  but to keep the content/noise ratio as high as possible.



HISTORY OF THE GROUP:



rec.arts.sf-reviews is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for

creation by 342:25 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 8 May 1991.

rec.arts.sf.reviews supersedes it as per the 714:86 vote in the

rec.arts.sf reorganization results announced on 13 October 1991.



PROPONENT:



Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at>



PROCEDURE:



Those who wish to comment on this moderator vacancy investigation should

subscribe to news.groups.proposals and participate in the relevant

threads in that newsgroup.  



To this end, the followup header of this MVI has been set to 

news.groups.proposals.



For more information on the MVI process, please see 



http://www.big-8.org/wiki/Moderator_Vacancy_Investigations



CHANGE HISTORY:



2010-05-20	First probe post

2010-08-09	Moderator Vacancy Investigation

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