create digitalmars.D.moderated ??

Bruce Adams tortoise_74 at yeah.who.co.uk
Tue Nov 20 11:06:01 PST 2007


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.

With some irony, I count 5 "me toos" out of 10 posts on just on this thread (at the time of writing. 4 if I'm not being harsh.  50% pure noise and this is a small thread. So you can count this as a me too too!




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