Usenet
RFD: news.admin.moderation
La proposta originale, pubblicata su Usenet il 23 settembre 1999, per creare il newsgroup news.admin.moderation. Il testo è riportato in inglese, così come fu pubblicato.The original proposal, posted to Usenet on 23 September 1999, to create the newsgroup news.admin.moderation.
REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
unmoderated group news.admin.moderation
This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the creation of a world-wide unmoderated Usenet newsgroup news.admin.moderation. This is not a Call for Votes (CFV); you cannot vote at this time. Procedural details are below.
Newsgroup line: A forum for moderation.
Rationale: news.admin.moderation
Since the introduction of group moderation (1980) members of the Usenet community have always had different opinions about moderation: some users think newsgroup moderation means censorship; others do it as work with no pay. What is needed is a specific forum where this topic can be talked about.
At the moment there is no appropriate newsgroup for discussion of this topic, so posts on the subject are debated mainly in other places like news.groups, news.admin.net-abuse, news.admin.censorship, and the debate tends to go nowhere. The purpose of news.admin.moderation is to provide a focal point of discussion on this issue.
In the Big Eight hierarchies there are almost 300 moderated groups: this should offer sufficient traffic for such a forum. As we all know, the future will bring increased flows of messages and more and more moderated newsgroups. Two mailing lists for moderators already exist. The newsgroup will be something more and will involve normal users bringing their personal know-how to this specific group.
Charter: news.admin.moderation
The news.admin.moderation newsgroup is intended to be unmoderated to allow users who don’t think their message is off-topic to come into the proposed group and show their message there: “People of news.admin.moderation, why can’t this message of mine be approved in this newsgroup?” And, of course, the newsgroup can also be used by moderators to justify their work.
Here new moderators can ask for advice from experienced ones about the best way to moderate a newsgroup or how to behave with certain kinds of posters. Users who would like to open a moderated newsgroup can ask in the group about all the problems that moderation can include or find out about the help that robo-moderation can give to save a lot of work (thanks, for instance, to the pre-approved list). Information on moderation’s software tools will be welcome here.
If a moderator disappears, or any other problems occur, posters from that group can come into the newsgroup and discuss how to deal with this matter, deciding what to do and who can replace the old moderator. The goal of this newsgroup is to preserve the freedom of one and all, users and moderators alike.
Procedure
This is a request for discussion, not a call for votes. In this phase of the process, any potential problems with the proposed newsgroups should be raised and resolved. The discussion period will continue for a minimum of 21 days (starting from when the first RFD for this proposal is posted to news.announce.newgroups), after which a Call For Votes (CFV) may be posted by a neutral vote taker if the discussion warrants it. Please do not attempt to vote until this happens.
All discussion of this proposal should be posted to news.groups.
This RFD attempts to comply fully with the Usenet newsgroup creation guidelines outlined in “How to Create a New Usenet Newsgroup” and “How to Format and Submit a New Group Proposal”. Please refer to these documents (available in news.announce.newgroups) if you have any questions about the process.
Distribution
news.announce.newgroups
news.groups
it.news.moderazione
Proponent: Giovanni Greco
Il messaggio originale su Google GroupsThe original post on Google Groups