Re: Recent posts and the lack thereof

ater31337 <*no_reply_at_yahoogroups.com*> · Thu, 01 Apr 2004 22:58:28 -0000

I'm going to have to back up Weiner here on both counts:

1. Having read the post on the HSQB site linked earlier in this
discussion, and experimented myself by trying to join this group with
a dummy account, I have to say that the whole process of requiring
specific moderator approval for joining is pretty stupid.  First off,
there's nowhere that makes it patently obvious that a user needs to
take direct action in communicating with a moderator to actually have
any attention paid to his efforts to join; second, it's impossible to
get a list of the moderators and their contact information without
actually being a member... I think we can all see the irony there.

2. I don't think Weiner is doing this out of personal animosity; it's
just that there is only one person who does repeatedly post in batches
of 4-5 at a time, and yes it is rather irritating and monopolizes
attention away from other recent posts, and it would be that way
regardless of the author.  In this particular case, I think it would
be wise if UTC got some free webspace and used that to post all their
announcements and results, and just made a post linking to all of them
every time something came up.  This would also defeat the problem of
all the tedious searching it takes to find results from the
39217239879898732 old UTC tournaments since their results are not
posted on any permanent website.

I think that is also a statement as to how outdated the Yahoo group
format is and how silly it is to have thousands of posts clumped
together without any threading or topic sorting to differentiate
anything.  Unfortunately, it seems like most of the circuit is still
locked into this format, but hey, if the moderation keeps up its
wonderful idea of blocking new members by making it ridiculously
tedious to get access to the group, maybe the circuit activity will go
elsewhere anyway.

--- In quizbowl_at_yahoogroups.com, "darwins_bulldog1138"
<darwins_bulldog1138_at_y...> wrote:
> > Dude, sounds like you have a problem with Charlie and not the 
> > moderators.  As long as what he's doing is qb related (and it
is), 
> > they can't do anything.  And aren't you being a little touchy for 
> > someone who moderates a board with some of the most tediously 
> > pointless threads ever?  Just delete the extra email you get if
you 
> > see it's from a UTC thing if it offends you that badly.
> 
> I was more concerned that legitimate quizbowl players were not being
> let in to the board. The other side of the coin was an afterthought.
> For what it's worth, I have no problem, personally, with just
deleting
> email, but people on dial-up or with limited inbox space may need
some
> help from the group mods on common-sense issues like posting 5 times
> in the space of 30 minutes.