Nan:2025-06-12-mf-rec.photo.moderated
From Usenet Big-8 Management Board
From: Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org> Newsgroups: news.announce.newgroups,news.groups.proposals,rec.photo.moderated Subject: MODERATOR FOUND: rec.photo.moderated Followup-To: news.groups.proposals Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:49:44 EDT Message-ID: <MPG.42b54d916dd18e09896f4@news.eternal-september.org> Archive-Name: rec.photo.moderated REPLACEMENT MODERATOR FOUND rec.photo.moderated The Big-8 Management Board is pleased to announce that Ivan Shmakov has volunteered to take on moderation duties for rec.photo.moderated. The group will be open for submissions shortly, and this will be announced in a post to the group. MODERATOR INFO: rec.photo.moderated Moderator: Ivan Shmakov Article submission address: <rec-photo-moderated-submit@newsmod.am-1.org> Moderation contact: <rec-photo-moderated-contact@newsmod.am-1.org> CHARTER AND MODERATION POLICY FOR REC.PHOTO.MODERATED: Articles must be relevant to the art or science of photography and of interest to serious amateur recreational photographers, must be in reasonably good taste, and must conform to Usenet guidelines. Suitable topics include: the technical aspects of photographic equipment, technique, optics, film, photographic philosophy, ethics and conduct, photography as fine art, and brief reviews of new products and announcements of events. Other topics may be accepted at the moderators' discretion, with the main criterion being interest to serious amateur recreation photographers. Articles about topics usually associated with commercial/professional photography may be accepted on a limited basis as long as they are relevant to serious amateur recreational photographers. Thus, for example, postings regarding wedding photography may be accepted if they meet the relevancy test, but articles regarding the business aspects of wedding photography are not acceptable. Advertising is prohibited, except that brief notices of events, shows, workshops, and the like will be considered if they relate to the art or science of photography and are of interest to serious amateur recreational photographers. Postings must bear the submitter's real name and contain a valid reply address. Authors that are affiliated with or have other financial interest in manufacturers, distributors, or service providers must disclose this fact in postings mentioning those products or services. Picture (binary) postings are not accepted. The moderators reserve the right to cut off the discussion of a topic when its "signal to noise ratio" has dropped too low and reject postings on recently discussed topics. They will also normally reject postings comparing or seeking comparisons of equipment, "what xxx should I buy?" and "me too" postings, and postings asking questions the author could have answered for himself/herself with a minimal amount of work. Flames will be rejected. Postings may be rejected because of inappropriate crossposting, and postings to multiple moderated groups will normally be rejected. (Approved FAQs, RFDs, and CFVs are a special case.) DISTRIBUTION news.announce.newgroups news.groups.proposals rec.photo.moderated CHANGE HISTORY 2025-06-12 Announcement -- Usenet Big-8 Management Board https://www.big-8.org/ board@big-8.org
