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This article is from the AIDS FAQ, by Dan Greening with numerous contributions by others.

1.10. Cooperative moderation - and voting on posts (sci.med.aids)

Cooperative moderation seeks to limit the burn-out associated with
newsgroup moderation, by sharing the workload among several
moderators. In addition, it provides a more balanced treatment of
contentious issues.

An early paper on the sci.med.aids cooperative moderation scheme is

D.R. Greening and A.D. Wexelblat, Experiences with Cooperative
Moderation of a USENET Newsgroup, Proceedings of the 1989 ACM/IEEE
Workshop on Applied Computing.

available by FTP from cs.ucla.edu:pub/aids.paper.ps.Z

This paper is also available from the UCLA Computer Science Department
as a technical report.

At present, a voting system has been added to the moderation
process. When you submit an article, moderators vote. 2 yes votes
post an article, while 2 no votes reject an article. The first
threshold to be exceeded determines the result.

 

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