Voting on the actual text of an FAQ would not work, not only for this
reason but also because most FAQs are constantly changing. The proposal
would have to vote on an FAQ maintainer. In effect, it would establish
a moderator or team of moderators to control the FAQ content of the
newsgroup (defining FAQ as anything crossposted to news.answers). The
various mechanisms that have been tried for newsgroup moderation could
also be used for FAQ moderation.
> Having unreliable "approved" FAQ:s floating
> around would quickly lose the appeal of the approval stamp, IMHO.
Well, yes. That was exactly the point of the posting that initiated
this thread. The question is how to decrease the frequency with which
that situation occurs.
Edward Reid <edward @paleo.greensboro.fl.us>
(not stating an opinion on the moderation proposal)
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