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

Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote at 22:13 this Tuesday (GMT):

Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> wrote:

On 07.01.2025 10:18 Uhr noel wrote:

On Sun, 05 Jan 2025 15:24:46 -0500, Marco Moock wrote:

On 05.01.2025 09:04 Uhr noel wrote:
 

If nobody is moderating the groups, why not unmoderate them
instead of removing them, if they get use, fair enough, if not,
there is no harm, no extra resources used other than a handful of
bytes for a one line entry in active file which already has
thousands of unmoderated groups that haven't been posted to in 10
years anway. 

 
The group lists are full of unused groups and that makes finding
active groups much harder, so cleaning that up is always a good
idea. We are here to discuss which of the groups might be still
relevant and might be revived. 

 
an extra few hundred is hardly going to mater, especially when of the
53419 "Active" /cough/ groups here, I'd be betting 80% or greater are
inactive, and have for many years.

 
I advocate for deleting them. I sometimes go through group lists and
see groups with interesting topics, but all empty. Not a good user
experience, so a cleanup is always a good idea.

>
Well there are things I haven't posted about because I couldn't
find a vaguely relevant group. Cut back the groups and such people
as me will become even less active, while others will start OT
threads in unmoderated groups which can drive regulars away from
the few groups that do still remain active.

You can always use the *.misc or *.talk newsgroup. It's not like there's
enough activity for it to derail any other threads :)
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