The Last Call for Comments (LCC) on 24 Mar 2007 initiated a five-day period for final comments. Following this comment period, the Big-8 Management Board has decided by consensus to create the newsgroup news.admin.moderation. For your newsgroups file: news.admin.moderation Technical and social issues of newsgroup moderation. (Moderated) news.admin.moderation is a moderated newsgroup for discussion of newsgroup moderation. Some suitable topics for discussion include: * how to be a good moderator * moderation "best practices" - for example, how/whether articles should be edited before approval; should articles be re-directed to other newsgroups; how should article rejections be handled * developing appropriate moderation policies and implementations * methods for filling vacancies in a moderation team * moderation software and moderation hosting services * whether moderation is appropriate for a specific topic * what to do if the moderator of a group you use disappears, and other problems with specific moderated groups * whether it would be appropriate to propose demoderating a specific group (the actual proposal, if made, would be to the appropriate configuration newsgroup) Unsuitable topics include: * discussion of moderation of web forums, mail lists, etc, except in as much as they pertain to newsgroup moderation * actual proposals for a new moderated newsgroup (such discussion should occur in news.groups.proposals or other configuration newsgroups) * "moderation in general: good or bad?" * flames, attacks and derogatory comments or nicknames Minimal crossposts may be allowed at the discretion of the moderators. MODERATION POLICY: news.admin.moderation news.admin.moderation is team-moderated, based on the above criteria. Ideally, most posts will be automatically approved by a robot moderator, to improve post turnaround time and reduce moderator load. Users will be added to a group whitelist after a small number (typically 1-5) of hand-moderated posts. Users may be removed from the whitelist at the discretion of the moderators. Site and subject watchlists and blocklists may be implemented to monitor group content and to stop forgers and abuse; posts so marked will (generally) be kept for manual approval, and not automatically rejected. A current list of posting criteria will be published regularly. Posting with a non-replyable or "munged" address is strongly discouraged. If you feel that you must use a munged address, you are encouraged to append ".invalid" to the end of the munged email address to indicate that the address is not deliverable even when ".invalid" is stripped from the end; in any case, the moderators will not attempt to unmunge any addresses. Users who do not munge their email address will be notified of rejected submissions via email. Note that submissions may be filtered to remove spam, spews, and other attacks.