"Tomas Lindquist Olsen" <tomas@famolsen.dk> wrote in message news:fi9pk6$2k43$1@digitalmars.com...
> Kris wrote:
>> "Janice Caron" <caron800@googlemail.com> wrote in message...
>>> I absolutely and wholeheartedly 100% endorse the creation of a moderated group. I look forward to it. The moment its door open, I'll be there (instead of here).
>>
>> Then we can look forward to some of your posts being moderated :)
>
> And yours too!

Truly fine with me, Thomas! :)

Take the following hypothetical (but familiar) example ::  "Dammit! Tango explicitly uses spaces instead of Tabs! I'm gonna fork the lib right now cos' that is against my Religion! What the heck were those darned idiots thinking anyway? What a bunch of petty amateurs!"

That's where flames arise from, and if the above nonsense is eliminated via moderation, then I'm all for it too. If that were filtered, you wouldn't need to moderate the responses either. A win win, right? :)

Perhaps I should volunteer to be a moderator :p

Kris wrote:
> [...]
> Perhaps I should volunteer to be a moderator :p 

Yes, let's send the fox to guard the henhouse...that would be a brilliant strategy!  I nominate Kris to be lead moderator!

Dave

"David B. Held" <dheld@codelogicconsulting.com> wrote ...
> Kris wrote:
>> [...]
>> Perhaps I should volunteer to be a moderator :p
>
> Yes, let's send the fox to guard the henhouse...that would be a brilliant strategy!  I nominate Kris to be lead moderator!
>

Thanks Dave! Your support is much appreciated :p

- Kris

Kris wrote:
> "David B. Held" <dheld@codelogicconsulting.com> wrote ...
>> Kris wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> Perhaps I should volunteer to be a moderator :p
>>
>> Yes, let's send the fox to guard the henhouse...that would be a brilliant strategy!  I nominate Kris to be lead moderator!
> 
> Thanks Dave! Your support is much appreciated :p

No, seriously.  I nominated you to be a moderator.  I think it might be just what the doctor ordered (assuming there is such a thing as a newsgroup doctor).  Not everyone agrees with me, but we'll see what happens.

Dave

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> I've thought many times it would be nice to have a 'digest' or 'best of' where an editor would pull out the best postings and list them on a separate web page. That would be great for the people who need to keep up but aren't willing to read all the postings. Unfortunately, I don't see a way to do this automatically, it needs a human editor who'll be willing to spend hours a week on it.
> 
> I've wished for that too after reading through the Python-dev summaries.  (http://www.python.org/dev/summary/)
> But it does take a dedicated volunteer.

Wow, that's exactly what we need for D!

Julio César Carrascal Urquijo wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> I've thought many times it would be nice to have a 'digest' or 'best of' where an editor would pull out the best postings and list them on a separate web page. That would be great for the people who need to keep up but aren't willing to read all the postings. Unfortunately, I don't see a way to do this automatically, it needs a human editor who'll be willing to spend hours a week on it.
> 
> It could be quite easy to do it automatically. Just setting up a way to allow readers to vote on the web interface and for those of use that use a news reader we could forward the post that we like.
> 
> Mmmmm. Actually It would need a Digg style voting system so it isn't quite that easy, but is doable.

My experience with voting on Digg, Slashdot, and Reddit is that it needs a human editor.

0ffh wrote:
> Alexander Panek wrote:
>> 0ffh Wrote:
>> [nice troll]
>> That's the nicest troll message I've ever read, that's for sure! :D
> 
> Thanks for feeding the troll! :)
> I wonder if it might be construed that it would be a fair compromise
> if everyone who writes off topic, in reply to whatever posting, marked
> the subject with the literal "off topic" so that the posting can be
> easily filtered out with a kill file (or for the tuning freaks, with
> a score file). I have seen people do that here, and I think it might
> be a real good idea.
> 
> regards, frank

Trolls will not self moderate themselves, however. Anyways, I think Walter is aiming at dealing with personal insults and merit-less discussions more so than off topic threads.

Reply to Clay,

> Anyways, I think
> Walter is aiming at dealing with personal insults and merit-less
> discussions more so than off topic threads.
> 

some of the OT threads are the most fun. I've, on occasion, thought there should be a digitalmars.D.totalyofftopic NG. It would be open to *anything* that isn't offensive, obscene, illegal, etc.

Clay Smith wrote:
> 0ffh wrote:
>> Alexander Panek wrote:
>>> 0ffh Wrote:
>>> [nice troll]
>>> That's the nicest troll message I've ever read, that's for sure! :D
>>
>> Thanks for feeding the troll! :)
>> I wonder if it might be construed that it would be a fair compromise
>> if everyone who writes off topic, in reply to whatever posting, marked
>> the subject with the literal "off topic" so that the posting can be
>> easily filtered out with a kill file (or for the tuning freaks, with
>> a score file). I have seen people do that here, and I think it might
>> be a real good idea.
>>
>> regards, frank
> 
> Trolls will not self moderate themselves, however.

They might self-moderate other people, though.

BCS wrote:
> Reply to Clay,
> 
>> Anyways, I think Walter is aiming at dealing with personal insults and
>> merit-less discussions more so than off topic threads.
>> 
> 
> some of the OT threads are the most fun. I've, on occasion, thought there should be a digitalmars.D.totalyofftopic NG. It would be open to *anything* that isn't offensive, obscene, illegal, etc.

Hits halive!1! (Add maniacal laughter here...) =)

I second digitalmars.D.totalyofftopic btw. I just wonder:
Would on-topic discussions be off-topic in digitalmars.D.totalyofftopic?

regards, frank