On Sat, 29 Jun 1996, Roehl Sybing wrote:

[...]

I have an idea.  I thinking of writing a proposal....to split up the RAAC 
heirarchy (i.e. rec.arts.anime.creative.ranma, 
rec.arts.anime.creative.sailor-moon, etc.).  Apparently the stress of the 
number of stories MegaZone was given before he quit was too much on him.

[...]

Hm.  I think that having a team of moderators for raac would be better,
since:

1.  Greater redundancy.  With a hypothetical 6 groups, 1 moderator apiece,
a vactaioning moderator stops postings to one group.  With 1 group, and 6
moderators, there are still 5 moderators to pick up the slack.

2.  It would be hard to get series specific groups though the newgroup
procedure, since people will point out (rightly) that series will fade
(Dirty Pair fanfic, for example, isn't nearly as popular as it was).  This
isn't so bad if people are conscientious (sp) about rmgrouping the old and
hardly used.

3.  Things will still be crossposted.  E.g. Twisted Path would need to be
x-posted between .creative.ranma and .creative.bgc and
.creative.author-include (if all three such groups existed).  Not such a
bad thing, but still.

The downside (as MZ mentioned) is that complexity increases with such
moderation.  Someone (I had thought it was Ryan, but he looked at me
strangely when I said I thought that) mentioned alt.humor.best-of-usenet
as a good group-moderated place.  Posts appear on it nearly every day, and
it serves a function similar to raac (keep the noise to a minimum). 

In any case, MZ agreed with you that the load is too big.  MZ said that
even if one person could handle the load today, in a few months, it would
probably be too big for them anyway.

bryan

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