On 11/03/2025 03:08, Keith Thompson wrote:

I just saw a post on news.announce.newgroups posted 2025-01-03, subject
"1st RfD: Mass-deletion of moderated groups without a moderator".

"This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) to remove the following
101 moderated newsgroups."

comp.lang.c.moderated is on the list.

Seebs was the moderator of comp.lang.c.moderated, but has
not participated since 2014. There have been no posts on comp.lang.c.moderated since then.

There have been discussions here in comp.lang.c in 2018 and 2021
about reviving comp.lang.c.moderated. I emailed Seebs about this
at the time, and he expressed tentative interesting in seeing it
revived, but with someone else moderating it.

My tentative opinion is that it's probably not worth reviving,
but if others are sufficiently interested *and* someone volunteers
to moderate it, perhaps it could be done. If it were revived,
I'd certainly subscribe and participate.

Subscribing to a group costs nothing more than a tiny bit of screen real
estate to show the group name, even if it is silent. I am subscribed to
a few dead, or almost dead, groups - I am sure most Usenet regulars are.
So if c.l.c.m were resurrected, I'd subscribe - and would reply if any threads did pop up that I thought were worth replying to.

However, I cannot imagine it receiving much traffic. Many of the
interesting threads here are started by new people, or by posters who
are likely to find themselves censored or limited by a moderator -
without such posters, there would be no life in the group.

If a discussion group is moderated, it really needs multiple moderators
spread across times - otherwise it is too slow, and gives too much power
and responsibility to one person and their subjective opinions.

So it is hard for me to imagine that it would be worth the effort.

One possible concern is that if comp.lang.c.moderated is removed,
historical posts might be lost. I don't know whether that's
a valid concern. It might depend on the policies of individual
Usenet servers and archives.

It also depends on what the posts are, and how much is of use or
interest to anyone else.

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On 12/03/2025 04:28, Tim Rentsch wrote:

I am in favor of reviving comp.lang.c.moderated, and hope a
suitable moderating arrangement can be found.

Technical question: is it feasible to have moderating duties
be shared among several people on some sort of rotating basis?
I have no experience moderating a usenet news group.

Neither have I. A few years ago I came close to moderating clcm,
but I skipped out of Seebs's way just in time.

I have no desire to end up being /the/ moderator, but would
gladly share the task if a pool of good folk could be agreed upon.

--
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
Sig line 4 vacant - apply within

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Keith Thompson <[email protected]> writes:

I just saw a post on news.announce.newgroups posted 2025-01-03, subject
"1st RfD: Mass-deletion of moderated groups without a moderator".

"This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) to remove the following
101 moderated newsgroups."

comp.lang.c.moderated is on the list.

Seebs was the moderator of comp.lang.c.moderated, but has
not participated since 2014. There have been no posts on comp.lang.c.moderated since then.

There have been discussions here in comp.lang.c in 2018 and 2021
about reviving comp.lang.c.moderated. I emailed Seebs about this
at the time, and he expressed tentative interesting in seeing it
revived, but with someone else moderating it.

My tentative opinion is that it's probably not worth reviving,
but if others are sufficiently interested *and* someone volunteers
to moderate it, perhaps it could be done. If it were revived,
I'd certainly subscribe and participate.

One possible concern is that if comp.lang.c.moderated is removed,
historical posts might be lost. I don't know whether that's
a valid concern. It might depend on the policies of individual
Usenet servers and archives.

I am in favor of reviving comp.lang.c.moderated, and hope a
suitable moderating arrangement can be found.

Technical question: is it feasible to have moderating duties
be shared among several people on some sort of rotating basis?
I have no experience moderating a usenet news group.

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In article <[email protected]>,
Tim Rentsch <[email protected]> wrote:

I am in favor of reviving comp.lang.c.moderated, and hope a
suitable moderating arrangement can be found.

Technical question: is it feasible to have moderating duties
be shared among several people on some sort of rotating basis?
I have no experience moderating a usenet news group.

It is; or at least it is possible to set up a pool to share the
responsibility. I understand the software is often a bit janky
and may need some work.

-Dan C.

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Richard Heathfield <[email protected]> writes:

On 12/03/2025 04:28, Tim Rentsch wrote:

I am in favor of reviving comp.lang.c.moderated, and hope a
suitable moderating arrangement can be found.
Technical question: is it feasible to have moderating duties
be shared among several people on some sort of rotating basis?
I have no experience moderating a usenet news group.

Neither have I. A few years ago I came close to moderating clcm, but I skipped out of Seebs's way just in time.

I have no desire to end up being /the/ moderator, but would gladly share
the task if a pool of good folk could be agreed upon.

I too would be happy to help, though I have never done it before.

--
Ben.

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David Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
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However, I cannot imagine it receiving much traffic.

This is my belief also, especially with google groups
posts not arriving here anymore.

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So it is hard for me to imagine that it would be worth the effort.

I agree, IIRC even when it was active decades ago, it did
not have a huge amount of posts. But back then clc was
filled with spam, so I went to clcm for a while until it
seems the mods disappeared.

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- Paraphrasing Star Wars

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