create digitalmars.D.moderated ??

[Bill Baxter]

Walter Bright wrote:
> It's been proposed that a new newsgroup be created, 
> digitalmars.D.moderated. It would work like moderated newsgroups on 
> usenet do, such as comp.lang.c++.moderated. There would be 3 or 4 
> volunteer moderators (not me), who would disallow posts that were 
> off-topic, me too, spam, lacked content, or contained personal attacks. 
> Ideally, the moderated group would set the bar for the quality of the 
> messages.
> 
> The original newsgroups will remain as the free-for-all wild west that 
> makes them both fun and perhaps a little intimidating for some. While I 
> like the wild west approach, many others clearly find it uncomfortable.

I vote no.  There's not that much traffic on these newsgroups yet.
Occasionally we get bursts like recently, but even then, the bulk of the
messages have been on-topic.  Maybe not significant, but on-topic
nonetheless.  So I don't see that having a moderated forum would really
change much, except create fragmentation.  When D gets closer to having
comp.lang.C++ levels of traffic and newbie questions, then it's worth
considering.

The other downside to a moderated system is that since someone has to
look at every message, there is inevitably some delay in message
delivery, maybe up to 24hrs.  I'm just guessing though.

--bb