Re: [CentOS] A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy (was: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux))

2011-05-18 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 5/17/11, m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: If we *really* need a moderator, here's an option: soc.religion.paganism has a robomoderator; on topic posts get autoapproved, obviously off-topic get bounced, and if there's any question, they get randomly bounced to a configurable number

Re: [CentOS] A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy (was: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux))

2011-05-18 Thread m . roth
Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: On 5/17/11, m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: If we *really* need a moderator, here's an option: soc.religion.paganism has a robomoderator; on topic posts get autoapproved, obviously off-topic get bounced, and if there's any question, they get randomly bounced

Re: [CentOS] A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy (was: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux))

2011-05-18 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 5/19/11, m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: As already said, this sounds really complicated. Coming from an IRC and vBB admin background, I'll suggest moderation using the reactive approach instead of a automated process. Not really. The perl script was written, um, around 1993 or

[CentOS] A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy (was: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux))

2011-05-17 Thread Jerry Franz
On 05/17/2011 03:06 AM, John Doe wrote: Maybe all the non-technical discussions could go into a CentOS Politics/Philosophy new list...? And on that note, some required reading for everyone in this floating flame war. Don't skim it - read it. http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html --

Re: [CentOS] A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy (was: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux))

2011-05-17 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 07:56:59 AM Jerry Franz wrote: On 05/17/2011 03:06 AM, John Doe wrote: Maybe all the non-technical discussions could go into a CentOS Politics/Philosophy new list...? And on that note, some required reading for everyone in this floating flame war. Don't skim it -

Re: [CentOS] A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy (was: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux))

2011-05-17 Thread m . roth
Lamar Owen wrote: On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 07:56:59 AM Jerry Franz wrote: On 05/17/2011 03:06 AM, John Doe wrote: Maybe all the non-technical discussions could go into a CentOS Politics/Philosophy new list...? And on that note, some required reading for everyone in this floating flame

Re: [CentOS] A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy (was: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux))

2011-05-17 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 11:33:37 AM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: If we *really* need a moderator, here's an option: soc.religion.paganism has a robomoderator; on topic posts get autoapproved, obviously off-topic get bounced, and if there's any question, they get randomly bounced to a configurable

Re: [CentOS] A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy (was: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux))

2011-05-17 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Am 17.05.11 17:33, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: If we *really* need a moderator, here's an option: soc.religion.paganism has a robomoderator; on topic posts get autoapproved, obviously off-topic get bounced, and if there's any question, they get randomly bounced to a configurable number of human

Re: [CentOS] A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy (was: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux))

2011-05-17 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:52:09AM +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Well, too much work for what it is worth. I once helped moderating a newsgroup and that is a task I at least won't do again. Still hoping for some common sense :) +1