Look at faqs.org and check out how many postings are approved for
news.answers. There's no way to keep up with it manually, and changes
in the outside priorities of the moderators can have a quick and
dramatic effect on the throughput balance.
If you have strong skills in the kind of scripting applications needed
for maintaining and automating the news.answers systems and are willing
to spend time (at least tens of hours) on it, do contact the
moderators. They've automated a lot and I'm sure they want to automate
more.
If you would like to be a moderator, contact the moderators. If you are
willing to commit several hours a week for a period of several years,
I'm sure they will be very interested. Don't offer ten or twenty hours;
it will cost them more time than that to get you up to speed. Someone
willing to commit to maintaining continuity for a period of years
would, I feel sure, be very welcome.
>Another possibility would be to use a distributed "NET" approach for
>FAQ reviews. Start up a moderated news.answers.faqs4review and
>news.answers.newfaqsdebate.
You are proposing a large and entirely new mechanism. As you correctly
state, news.answers approval is based solely on form. The moderators
simply require this much time just to deal with the form. They
certainly aren't reviewing content.
>Ask this list if you need some help
They have, many times. But realize that they won't ask for an hour or
two of help -- it isn't worth their time. If you can contribute
hundreds of hours, then volunteer. Or (perhaps) tens of hours
specifically for writing scripts.
Edward Reid
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