The former moderator of news.newusers.questions has reported to the Usenet Big-8 Management Board that this newsgroup is currently dead and there are
no remaining moderators. This article is being posted to news.group to see
if anyone is interested in taking over moderation duties for this group.
The most recent article in news.newusers.questions is more than three
years old. It would be useful to know whether that is because the
moderation path has been broken for three years or because there are no
new users with questions.
On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 17:34:47 -0500, Steve Bonine wrote:
The most recent article in news.newusers.questions is more than three
years old. It would be useful to know whether that is because the moderation path has been broken for three years or because there are no
new users with questions.
It's because the former moderators retired and even if they wanted to moderate it again, they no longer have access to moderation software.
I have seen before in "moderator wanted" threads the phrase that the
previous moderators no longer have access to moderation software and I
find it puzzling. Why can't they reinstall or redownload or whatever the software they were using in the past ? Any new moderator would also need
to use moderation software so why is it that a new moderator can somehow
gain access to such software but the old moderators are unable to do so
?
We need new moderation software that is both easy to setup and use and doesn't require advanced technical knowledge to get going.
We need new moderation software that is both easy to setup and use and doesn't require advanced technical knowledge to get going.
On Sat, 30 Apr 2022 15:15:32 -0000 (UTC), Spiros Bousbouras wrote:
We need new moderation software that is both easy to setup and use and doesn't require advanced technical knowledge to get going.
As it is most groups only have a few posts a day.
Jason Evans wrote:
We need new moderation software that is both easy to setup and use and
doesn't require advanced technical knowledge to get going.
Dream on. You cannot find people who are willing to invest the time to >install existing software; who in their right mind would take on the
project of creating new and improved software when there is no audience
to use it?
If you - the Board - really want to contribute something to Usenet, set
up a moderation platform and make it available to anyone who is willing
to take on the moderation of a dead newsgroup. The same platform can be
used to moderate many newsgroups, and the incremental effort of adding a
new group to the mix is tiny compared to the effort of creating the
platform from scratch.
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