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- From: matt@physics2.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: How moderation would work
- Date: 12 Jan 93 16:57:53
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (Theoretical Physics Group)
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- Message-ID: <MATT.93Jan12165753@physics2.berkeley.edu>
- References: <m720wB1w165w@1776.COM>
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- In-reply-to: bob@1776.COM's message of 12 Jan 93 18:50:21 GMT
-
- In article <m720wB1w165w@1776.COM> bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe) writes:
-
- > There's been a lot said recently to the effect that the panel of moderators
- > would (or should) vote on whether to accept a particular article. Surely
- > that would be too cumbersome and slow! It would (IMO) make much more sense
- > to allow any member of the panel to decide on any article, bouncing it to one
- > or more of the others only if he didn't feel qualified to make the call. The
- > full panel would deal only with complaints that one or more of their number
- > was being too lenient or too strict.
-
- That's the intention, and for exactly the reason you give: voting on
- every article would be far too cumbersome.
-
- The way things will work is that an article will be sent to one of the
- moderators at random. That moderator can either post it or reject it.
-
- If necessary, the moderators can ask each other (Or other people too!
- The moderators aren't experts on everything, any more than anyone else
- is) for advice, but the hope is that this will only rarely be
- necessary.
-
- There will also be an alias set up so that people can send mail to all
- of the moderators; that's so that people who are concerned about group
- moderation can discuss them.
-
- --
- Matthew Austern Just keep yelling until you attract a
- (510) 644-2618 crowd, then a constituency, a movement, a
- austern@lbl.bitnet faction, an army! If you don't have any
- matt@physics.berkeley.edu solutions, become a part of the problem!
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