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Re: What's actually the task of the moderators on BrickShelf?
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Wed, 8 Sep 2004 15:50:23 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dan Boger wrote:
In lugnet.build, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
In my view this subthread is not really suitable to .general, especially the way
it's went downtree. I forceFUT several of the posts in this branch without
saying anything(1), but I'm not sure it took. Please respect the FUT, thanks.

1 - a technique I've been using lately, it is less disruptive, but in this case
since it's not working, I'm saying something.

I would actually really appriciate if you DID say something every time you force
it, just because otherwise, a thread will just disappear as far as NNTP/SMTP
users

SOME NNTP/SMTP users, those who are not already following the group it belongs
in. The rest of them will see new posts just fine.

are concered.  If you do let people know you moved it, then at least if I
still want to follow a thread, I know where to look.

Ya, that's true, but the downside is that it's a lot more obtrusive to everyone
else, and if people start wrangling about it, then it pollutes the thread
something fierce with metadiscussion. Like this one is now getting.

ForceFUT is a lot better than the older approach but still not perfect. I'm glad
its there though!



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  ForceFUTs (was: What's actually the task of the moderators on BrickShelf?)
 
(Reposting from the web, auth email lost someplace on it's way to me) (...) I'd expect it to be the common case, as most threads moved are moved from a more general group (.general) to a more specific one (.color, .o-t.debate, etc). (...) I don't (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.admin.general)

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