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Subject: Re: 3rd RfD: Mass-deletion of moderated groups without a moderator
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On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:12:52 EDT, Usenet Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org> wrote:
>               REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
>This is a formal Request for Discussion (RFD) to remove the following
>99 moderated newsgroups.
>RATIONALE:
>Currently, these groups cannot be used for discussion because of the
>lack of a moderator. Most of these groups haven't had a moderator for
>a long time and have been unused for years. We consider it unlikely
>that they will ever be revived with a new moderator. Nonetheless,
>anyone interested in becoming a moderator for a group listed in this
>RFD is invited to contact the Big-8 Management Board.
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the several "triggerhappy" servers that routinely issue and accept nocems,
cancels, etc. (bleachbot, usenet.ovh, e-s, pasdenom, chmurka) in order to
impose their own fiats of newsgroup moderation in lieu of free expression
shows that nntp servers can, each at their individual and collective whim,
moderate themselves in lieu of necessity for disused newsgroup moderation

also, because the majority of newsgroup subscribers are using newsreaders
that have at least some scoring/filtering capacity, and allow downloading
article headers and bodies from multiple newsservers (tbird, dialog etc.),
it's always been up to the user to implement their own form of moderation,
a luxury afforded only to usenet in stark contrast to social media forums

unmoderated usenet forums are no place for those accustomed to mainstream
programming, which has always imposed strict control over their narrative
as propagated throughout the world, particularly in politics and religion,
and the past three decades of eternal september's troll farm continues to
this day doing their altogether-best to discourage and stifle free speech