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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix6.panix.com!nan.users.panix.com!robomod!not-for-mail From: candycanearter07 Newsgroups: news.groups.proposals Subject: Re: 1st RfD: Mass-deletion of moderated groups without a moderator Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2025 20:48:55 EDT Organization: the-candyden-of-code Approved: NGP Approval Key Message-ID: References: <677999c5@news.ausics.net> <677a2282$1@news.ausics.net> <20250105082258.0c55387a@ryz.dorfdsl.de> <677a83c6$1@news.ausics.net> <20250105212436.52a5a78b@ryz.dorfdsl.de> <677c94c5$1@news.ausics.net> <20250107210415.0c5f1753@ryz.dorfdsl.de> <677d91cd@news.ausics.net> Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix6.panix.com:166.84.1.6"; logging-data="11728"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6SxUXHe3cgY7Pd1RXlAk6mcccrg= X-NGP-Policy: http://www.big-8.org/~ngp X-NGP-Info-1: Send submissions to ngp@nan.users.panix.com X-NGP-Info-2: Send technical/policy queries to ngp-admin@nan.users.panix.com X-Comment: Moderators do not necessarily agree or disagree with this article. X-Robomod: STUMP X-Spam-Relay-Country: FR DE DE X-Spam-DCC: www.nova53.net: mailcrunch2.panix.com 1206; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 Authentication-Results: mail2.panix.com; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=candycanearter07.nomail.afraid Authentication-Results: mail2.panix.com; spf=fail smtp.mailfrom=eternal-september.org Authentication-Results: name/38662622C6; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=candycanearter07.nomail.afraid X-Original-Injection-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 01:10:04 +0200 (CEST) X-Face: b{dPmN&%4|lEo,wUO\"KLEOu5N_br(N2Yuc5/qcR5i>9-!^e\.Tw9?/m0}/~:UOM:Zf]% b+ V4R8q|QiU/R8\|G\WpC`-s?=)\fbtNc&=/a3a)r7xbRI]Vl)r<%PTriJ3pGpl_/B6!8pe\btzx `~R! r3.0#lHRE+^Gro0[cjsban'vZ#j7,?I/tHk{s=TFJ:H?~=]`O*~3ZX`qik`b:.gVIc-[$t/e ZrQsWJ >|l^I_[pbsIqwoz.WGA] wrote at 22:13 this Tuesday (GMT): > Marco Moock 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 :) -- user is generated from /dev/urandom