X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,32452b2fbd2fbc6c X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-05-24 11:27:31 PST Path: gmd.de!nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!waikato!canterbury.ac.nz!equinox.gen.nz!equinox!Colin_Douthwaite Subject: Re: moderation-YUK Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art References: <2rik75$mdg@news-feed-2.PeachNet.EDU> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL3] From: Colin_Douthwaite@equinox.gen.nz (Colin Douthwaite) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 24 May 94 23:55:53 +1200 Organization: Equinox Networks Lines: 50 Troy Fore (tfore@st6000.sct.edu) wrote: : On Fri, 20 May 1994 04:37:15 -0400, Andre Beskrowni wrote: : > Hi everyone: : Hi! : > All I keep hearing is that moderation is good because we won't have to : > see the same requests over and over, blah, blah, blah. > All I keep hearing is that moderation is evil because there is the slight > possibility that maybe perhaps someone's post might not make it on the > group, or whatever, blah, blah, blah. > Uh, what? You lost me. Scarecrow won't just delete a discussion > because it is getting repetitive. How the heck do you know what Scarecrow will do ? Nobody will know till he gets elected - and there is no provision in the Charter to remove him. Think about that ! > I don't see him putting much effort into censorship -- it'd be too > much work, and no fun, and Scarecrow is a fun guy. You seem to know this Scarecrow much better than most of us. > BTW, I'm not so sure "so many" people feel the way you do. Just > seems to be an anonymous guy and Colin Yep, there's just the three of us out here :-) > You people are just arguing against the CONCEPT of a moderator.... At last you have said something I agree with. I would add to your sentence ...for the subject of ASCII-ART. > Blind dislike of an abstract concept sucks, but is perhaps > justifiable. Any problem with giving something/somebody a CHANCE? It is too great a risk to take if there is no provision for removal of the moderator - and no such provision has been included in the Charter. Interesting ? Bye,