Re: Proposing alt.anime.creative

"Adam H. Kerman" <[email protected]> posted:

> tidux <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >I am proposing the creation of alt.anime.creative as an unmoderated
> >replacement for the rec.arts.anime.creative newsgroup which has been
> >effectively killed by lack of a moderator.  Assigning a new moderator
> >team for rec.arts.anime.creative or creating
> >rec.arts.anime.creative.unmoderated would also be acceptable, but
> >there's more process involved in that, so I'm proposing an alt group.
> 
> Yes. I understand that your goal here is to do the least amount of work
> possible. Let me disabuse you of that notion. If you want the group to
> be well used and successful, then the proponent must perform real work.
> It takes time and effort and more time and more effort. There's no
> magical handwaiving shortcut.
> 
> I have no idea why rec.arts.anime.creative was proposed as a moderated
> group, but if whatever the problem had been and if it still exists today
> and if moderation is the best solution to dealing with it, then yes, put
> a moderation team together and reclaim the group.
> 
> Please don't propose *.unmoderated; that's a bad idea.
> 
> If the group is to be unmoderated, you are starting from scratch. Your
> job, if you intend to be a serious proponent, is to find the audience.
> Because there's always a more generic group to post in, use the existing
> group. The advantage is the group is already created on every News site
> that processes the Big 8 checkgroups, which means that a user just has
> to subscribe rather than requesting its creation locally.
> 
> rec.arts.anime.misc exists. Post there. Prove there's a Usenet audience.
> 
> >There's enormous amounts of relevant content being produced on several
> >web sites, and I could seed the group by posting old articles from
> >rec.arts.anime.creative or stories from the popular websites reformatted
> >to Usenet-friendly plain text.
> 
> Please don't do any of that. The author gets to choose for himself what
> medium of communication to use. Reposting someome else's story without
> permission is a lousy thing to do. Also, if the story were posted on the
> Web, there's nothing at all wrong with commenting on the story in the
> Web forum.
> 
> Usenet groups are for the Usenet audience, not the Web audience. Seeding
> the group isn't useful in any way.
> 
> You know what would be useful? Post your own commentary on stories that
> you've read and liked and disliked to rec.arts.anime.misc with a
> citation to the Web where the story was published.
> 
> Tell us your own thoughts. That's what sparks Usenet discussion. Don't
> repost what someone else created because you yourself won't post what
> you truly want to say.
adam you are a massive faggot