Weather Banter - View Single Post - Should we think about creating uk.sci.weather.moderated?

Alan LeHun · August 17th 13, 03:09 PM posted to uk.sci.weather

In article 20130817145005.532e0112@home-1,
says...
The point is to keep the group on-topic. Posts are moderated, not
posters.

And yet, in another reply, you say post-moderation is frowned upon and
not allowed in uk.* newsgroups. I'm sorry, Alan, but you've left me a
little confused.

Ahh. Ok.

Post(after) moderation is where the post is allowed through by default
but can then be subsequently canceled by the moderation team.
Unfortunately, this means that it is possible for some subscribers to
see the post and not others. Those first subscribers may reply to the
post and things get complicated.

Moderation in the uk.* groups is something that is applied on a post-by-
post basis before it is allowed to get through. This can be by software,
or by manual moderation or, more usually, a combination of both. Once a
post gets past moderation and ends up in the group, if can not be
canceled/deleted, even if it is subsequently determined to be a post
that should not have passed moderation. Moderation is (should be)
applied in accordance with a moderation policy which specifies the
criteria that determine if a post should not be allowed through.

Post moderation (canceling of already active articles) is an ambiguous
term and I shall stop using it.

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Alan LeHun
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