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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: 1st RfD: Mass-deletion of moderated groups without a moderator
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 20:48:55 EDT
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Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote at 22:13 this Tuesday (GMT):
> Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> wrote:
>> On 07.01.2025 10:18 Uhr noel wrote:
>>> On Sun, 05 Jan 2025 15:24:46 -0500, Marco Moock wrote:
>>> > On 05.01.2025 09:04 Uhr noel wrote:
>>> >   
>>> >> If nobody is moderating the groups, why not unmoderate them
>>> >> instead of removing them, if they get use, fair enough, if not,
>>> >> there is no harm, no extra resources used other than a handful of
>>> >> bytes for a one line entry in active file which already has
>>> >> thousands of unmoderated groups that haven't been posted to in 10
>>> >> years anway.  
>>> > 
>>> > The group lists are full of unused groups and that makes finding
>>> > active groups much harder, so cleaning that up is always a good
>>> > idea. We are here to discuss which of the groups might be still
>>> > relevant and might be revived.  
>>> 
>>> an extra few hundred is hardly going to mater, especially when of the 
>>> 53419 "Active" /cough/ groups here, I'd be betting 80% or greater are 
>>> inactive, and have for many years.
>> 
>> I advocate for deleting them. I sometimes go through group lists and
>> see groups with interesting topics, but all empty. Not a good user
>> experience, so a cleanup is always a good idea.
>
> Well there are things I haven't posted about because I couldn't
> find a vaguely relevant group. Cut back the groups and such people
> as me will become even less active, while others will start OT
> threads in unmoderated groups which can drive regulars away from
> the few groups that do still remain active.


You can always use the *.misc or *.talk newsgroup. It's not like there's
enough activity for it to derail any other threads :)
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