I refuse to post in news.groups.proposals. Stop directing discussion
into that moderated newsgroup that does not belong there.
Usenet Big-8 Management Board <
board@big-8.org> wrote:
REPLACEMENT MODERATOR FOUND
soc.history.war.world-war-ii
The Big-8 Management Board is pleased to announced that Bixby has
volunteered to moderate the newsgroup soc.history.war.world-war-ii.
The group's previous moderator, Stephen Graham, had announced on
2017-06-07 that group's the moderation platform had suffered a
catastrophic failure. Unfortunately, Stephen passed away a couple years >later.
The new moderator has already taken over duties and the group has been >accepting new posts since January 2024. . . .
I'm sure I've said this a few hundred times.
EVERY MODERATED NEWSGROUP NEEDS A MODERATOR REPLACEMENT PLAN. EVERY
SINGLE ONE. THE HIERARCHY ADMINISTRATORS HAVE NO BUSINESS RE-ASSIGNING
DUTIES TO A NEW MODERATOR WHO DOESN'T PRESENT A PLAN FROM THE START.
Is this a joke? The platform failed in 2017. It wasn't replaced. Then
the former moderator died.
Is there no possibility of learning this lesson from the real world
example of this very newsgroup?
A single moderator is a single point of failure. This is an unacceptable
method of moderating newsgroups. It's just going to end badly again.
Stop doing that.
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