Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 5/17/11, m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> If we *really* need a moderator, here's an option: soc.religion.paganism >> has a robomoderator; on topic posts get autoapproved, obviously >> off-topic get bounced, and if there's any question, they get randomly >> bounced to a configurable number of human moderators, allowing for load >> balancing on the humans (and vacations, sick time, etc). > > As already said, this sounds really complicated. Coming from an IRC > and vBB admin background, I'll suggest moderation using the reactive > approach instead of a automated process. Not really. The perl script was written, um, around 1993 or '94, and it was based on one from talk.lang.russian? something like that. <snip> mark