🚀 go-pugleaf

klaatu <klaatu@clark.net> writes:

 > Probably if dc.general.moderated gets created and moderated,
 > moderation should probably be pre-screened by a 'bot to get rid of
 > 90-group MLM or MMF or XXX, and then what remains gets voted on by
 > the moderators in a 2-of-3 mode.

Jeez, talk about burdening humans with bureaucracy!  Methinks you got it
half right.  IMHO, the moderation should be prescreened by a bot... and
that's all.  Not even humans afterward.  If the PTBs want to, they can
tweak the bot rules to bar, for example, crossposts to talk.politics.*
or some such, rather than burdening the humans with deciding on each
individual post (that might lead to such an exclusion).

That said, if the sole duty of the "moderators" is to tweak the bot
rules as requested by the populace, I'd accept the post... but I do NOT
want to have to prescreen even what passes a 'bot.  Maybe we could have
a monthly posting of the current 'bot rules, followed by a vote of what
rules to add/remove/change, requiring at least 10 different people, plus
approval by a majority of the moderators, to make any such move.

'Puters are Real Good at doing repetitive drudge work over and over and
over and over and <smacks self> I think that's all that's needed here,
at least for now.  If that proves insufficient, THEN maybe we can talk
about human moderators.  (Er, that's humans as moderators, not things
that moderate humans, useful as that might be.)

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