ccs020@ucdavis.UUCP (Kevin Chu) (11/13/85)
In article <973@lll-crg.ARpA> bandy@lll-crg.ARpA (Andrew Scott Beals) writes: > I want to change all of this. I am volunteering for being the moderator > (fascist) of mod.jokes. In addition, I would like to delete net.jokes. > (if free-form exists, people aren't going to post to the mod group.. also > they might take offense at someone telling them that "Patty O'Furniture" > an original joke) > > My plan is to weed out duplicates. I also plan on keeping an archive of > everything that I get. > > Suggestions? Comments? > While I agree that net.jokes has it's share of problems, mod.jokes just won't work. (Proof by intuition :-) 1) With the amount of flow net.jokes has, you as moderator would have a full time job reading jokes. 2) Your taste in jokes could become a factor. Personal taste is something that doesn't matter in something like mod.sources. 3) Would you rotate the jokes that YOU found offensive? I don't know you, you might find everything offensive, or nothing offensive. Are you going to insert "ROT 13" into every subject line that doesn't have it? 4) If you get sick, go on vacation, want to spend time with your family, or do your (paid) job, will we have to wait until you're done before we can read the jokes? I, too, sometimes get angry when I see elephant jokes or rotated jokes with nothing in the subject. However, solving the problem by making mod.jokes would ruin the good part of net.jokes. I think that the new users need to be educated more before being allowed to post. With a set-up like USENET, there is bound to be repeat posts. However, just because you have already heard a joke, doesn't mean everyone else hasn't. Who knows, maybe that last joke you thought was funny has been around for 10 years? -- --Kevin Chu ..!{ucbvax,lll-crg,dual}!ucdavis!vega!ccs020