Re: Moderator Vacancy Investigation: comp.os.plan9

Byrl Raze Buckbriar <news0@octade.net> wrote at 17:21 this Tuesday (GMT):

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On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 23:30:36 CST
Anthony <a@9srv.net> wrote:
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Tristan Miller <tmiller@big-8.org> wrote:

Dear Steve,

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I don’t know what the right answer is about moderation. I read several
unmoderated news groups which are great, but I’ve also had to abandon a
couple which had turned into trash fires. Simply naming a new moderator is
certainly the simplest path. I am interested, but also don’t wanna be a
single point of failure. I’ve asked on her mailing list if anybody’s
willing to work with me on it. I was hoping to get farther with that before
responding to the MVI, but since I was (obliquely) mentioned… :-)

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I suggest to the Big8 board to establish a fallback moderator pool consisting of every registered moderator and a trio or quartet of 'super mods'. This pool would consist of fallback moderators who would begin moderating a group if it falls dormant or its registered moderator goes dormant or incommunicado. In this way, any and every moderated group would always have fallback moderation.

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At the very least, I wouldn't imagine it would be too much effort since
a lot of the unmoderated newsgroups have no activity anyways
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