Re: 1st RfD: Mass-deletion of moderated groups without a moderator

Greetings.
On 2025-01-04 09:30, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org> wrote:

               REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)

 

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

 The audience for potential moderators of these specific newsgroups is
not to be found here in news.groups.
 

DISTRIBUTION:

 

news.announce.newgroups
news.groups.proposals
news.groups

 

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 Brilliant stuff there, Way to literally go behind everybody's back.

Where do you suggest we post the RFD, then?
Should we cross-post the RFD to all of the affected groups?  I doubt our own news server would accept such an article, and others might also reject it for excessive cross-posting.  But maybe I am wrong.
Should we post a separate copy of the RFD to each of the affected groups?  Again, I'm worried this might trigger some automated spam/flooding filters.  But again, maybe I am wrong about this.
Besides the affected groups, is there a better place to reach an audience of potential moderators?

I look forward to your next trick, mass rmgrouping of unmoderated Big 8
newsgroups.

This has been done several times in the past, as documented on our website at <https://www.big-8.org/wiki/The_Great_Downsizing_2011/1> and <https://www.big-8.org/wiki/The_Great_Downsizing_2011/2>.

If you have any objections, please make them heard in moderated group
news.groups.proposals. The "Followup-To:" header is set on this message,
so simply replying to this post should do the right thing.

 You MUST NOT instruct me where to post my followup, It's my decision,
not yours.

No one is instructing you to do anything.  Our message *requests* you to reply on news.groups.proposals as this is the only place the Board is guaranteed to be monitoring the discussion.
In 2022 we initiated an RFD on whether to continue using news.groups.proposals in this way, or to switch to the unmoderated news.groups.  It doesn't appear as though we received any comments from you.  The community's reaction to the RFD was mixed and so the Board voted to preserve the status quo.  That said, you (or anyone else) is welcome to start another RFD of your own.
Regards,
Tristan
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