Subject: RESULT: soc.culture.japan.moderated moderated passes 200:26 From: Jan Isley Date: 1996/06/13 Newsgroups: news.groups RESULT moderated group soc.culture.japan.moderated passes 200:26 UseVote 3.0 Vote Count - (c) 1993,94 Ron Dippold soc.culture.japan.moderated results - 226 valid votes Yes No | 2/3 >100 | Pass | Group ---- ---- | --- ---- | ---- | ------------------------------------------- 200 26 | Yes Yes | Yes | soc.culture.japan.moderated 10 invalid votes A five day discussion period follows this announcement. If no serious allegations of voting irregularities are raised, the moderator of news.announce.newgroups will create the group shortly thereafter. Newsgroups line: soc.culture.japan.moderated Anything Japanese. (Moderated) Votes closed on:59:59 UTC, 5 Jun 1996. This vote was conducted by a neutral third party. Questions about the proposed group should be directed to the proponent. Proponent: Shimpei Yamashita Proponent: Mike Fester Proponent: Akira Ijuin Votetaker: Jan Isley RATIONALE: soc.culture.japan.moderated soc.culture.japan (scj) presently receives over 200 posts per day. Many of these posts are off-topic, and many more are crossposted flame wars that bring no fruitful discussions and distract the readership as a whole from the threads that do invite good discussion. Newsreaders with good killfile mechanisms can reduce the noise to some extent; however, the speed at which new irrelevant threads are created in recent days can exhaust even the most prolific killfile writers. To help solve this problem, we propose the creation of a new newsgroup soc.culture.japan.moderated (scjm). Note that this is not an attempt to moderate scj; scj will remain active and unmoderated after the creation of scjm. Because of the high traffic expected in the group, a computer program will moderate most of the traffic in scjm. The program will reject all crossposts except to soc.culture.japan and subject all new posters to human approval; we expect that these measures alone will reduce noise significantly. The program may reject forward to the moderators those articles that fall under certain criteria they determine (see MODERATION POLICY). Those wishing to carry on a cross-discussion with other newsgroups are still welcome to do so in soc.culture.japan. CHARTER: soc.culture.japan.moderated soc.culture.japan.moderated is for discussion of Japanese culture. Appropriate topics include, but are not limited to: Living and traveling in Japan; Japanese politics, history, religion, or current events; and Japanese entertainment (such as anime, manga, or pop music). Note: A frequent source of noise in soc.culture.japan is Japan's involvement in World War II and its consequences. This topic is within the scope of scjm, and posts on this topic are welcome; however, posters are encouraged to keep their posts rational and informative. In addition, moderators will reserve the right to ask the posters to post summaries of their opinions on a certain thread, and then cut off the thread for some length of time (on order of two weeks or so). Inappropriate topics include: Topics not involving Japan. Topics involving ethnic Japanese people that have no direct connection to Japan or Japanese culture. (For example, Lance Ito being Japanese American does not make the OJ Simpson trial an appropriate topic.) Commercial, wanted, forsale, or personal ads. Presently ads contribute significantly to the noise in soc.culture.japan. Most of these ads have other, more relevant newsgroups such as misc.marketplace.* and alt.personals, and therefore should not be tolerated even in scj, much less in scjm. We do recognize, however, the utility of posting ads for jobs pertaining to Japan, and will make an exception for a weekly digest of job ads submitted by the readership and compiled by volunteers. All crossposts except to soc.culture.japan. This exception is made to prevent the scjm readership from becoming isolated from the scj readers who elect to stay in the unmoderated forum. Note that such crossposts are subject to the same moderation standards as all other posts to scjm, but anyone whose posts are rejected can repost them in scj alone and continue discussion. Flamebaits, or posts designed specifically to elicit angry responses. We recognize that the distinction between flamebaits and harsh posts is a subjective one. The moderators will use their best judgment to decide whether a flamebait will generate enough noise to warrant being rejected. Moderation Policy: Most of the moderation will be done by a computer software. The functions of the software will be to: 1) reject all crossposts except to soc.culture.japan. (It will have to make an exception for the FAQ, which will be crossposted to soc.culture.japan, news.answers and soc.answers.) 2) apply filters defined by the moderators to the posts to see if they fall under certain categories (defined below). If so, the posts are forwarded to the moderators for review. 3) check the poster name against a list of people who have already posted to groups (and approved by the moderators). If the name is on the list and it did not match the filters, the submission is posted automatically. Submissions by new posters are reviewed by human moderators for approval; this is done to reduce the number of trollers and also to give a chance for everyone interested in scjm to become familiar with the moderation process. (For the latter purpose, a copy of the scj.* FAQ and a scjm FAQ outlining the moderation policy will be mailed to all new posters.) If a post is marked for human approval, it is forwarded to the moderation team for review. We plan to reduce turnaround time by having the moderators log in to a server and approve articles deposited on that server as their schedules allow. The server will also keep a log of each moderators' activities, and post a summary periodically to allow the readership to ensure that the moderators are acting in a fair manner. If the moderators agree that a certain topic has degenerated to the point where further discussion on scjm may be detrimental to the mission of the group, then a filter will be installed on the computer program to allow human moderation of the thread; in extreme cases, the moderators may even elect to reject the thread automatically. Similarly, if a poster repeatedly commits abuse or acts contrary to the charter, his name may be placed in a filter so that all of his posts are subject to human review. In extreme cases, the moderators may ban the poster altogether for a limited time not exceeding two months. All such actions by the moderators must appear in the periodical report mentioned in the previous paragraph. In particular, the list of monitored and banned individuals must be available. There should be at least five moderators at any given time; it should go below that number only if the moderation team feels that no qualified individual has contacted them to volunteer. The team is responsible for picking replacements for any moderators who decide to leave the team. Russ Allbery has graciously volunteered to provide a server from which to perform the moderation duties. END CHARTER. MODERATOR INFO: soc.culture.japan.moderated Moderator: "Shimpei Yamashita" Moderator: "Mike Fester" Moderator: "Akira Ijuin" Moderator: "Chuck Douglas" Moderator: "Jeff Friedl" Moderator: "Scott Reynolds" Administrative contact address: scjmmod@eyrie.org Article submission address: scjm@eyrie.org END MODERATOR INFO. soc.culture.japan.moderated Final Voter list Voted YES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick.Farry@access.com.au Patrick Farry mhender@ozemail.com.au Margaret Hender pek@dvcr.adelaide.edu.au Peter Kenne jwb@rdt.monash.edu.au Jim Breen p-kaub@central.murdoch.edu.au Pete Kaub smtanaka@uninet.com.br Sergio M. Tanaka Douglas_Hallett@mindlink.bc.ca Douglas Hallett ah911@freenet.carleton.ca George Sayer cq315@freenet.carleton.ca Hank Walker wmaton@enterprise.ic.gc.ca William F. Maton phipps@chopin.physics.mcgill.ca Martin Phipps warlock@nortel.ca jacky (j.) mallett frampton@mail.flarc.edu.on.ca Steve Frampton edmonds@cs.ubc.ca Brian Edmonds jmcgarry@uoguelph.ca James McGarry OGUOCHA@sask.usask.ca I. Oguocha warkent@leaohp1.epfl.ch Ken Warkentyne fukuman@eng.adaptec.com Tak Fukuman dkmason@aloha.com DeVictor King Mason LCallet@aol.com Lee Callet Nihonbuyo@aol.com Jean W. Williams edhall@ayched.com Ed Hall phil@bolthole.com Philip Brown dcell@cftnet.com Dave creal@coastalnet.com R.L. Creal 100545.1533@CompuServe.COM Uwe Hirayama donk@A.crl.com Don Kirkman kiseido@crl.com Bill Franke smusale@cvimail.CV.COM Shailendra Musale cmwhite@eskimo.com Carol White csr-kts@gol.com Kevin Sullivan eboccas@gol.com Eric Boccas friedman@gol.com Seth Friedman guru@gol.com Gururaj Rao jimbud@gol.com Jim (Bud) Weisser jroth@gol.com Joel Roth klewis@gol.com K. Lewis log@gol.com Louise Bremner lstaples@gol.com Larry Staples maynard@gol.com Maynard Hogg rah@gol.com Roger Hoffmann stuart@gol.com Stuart Woodward tomduffy@gol.com Tom Duffy ys@gol.com Mark Rupert andyl@harlequin.com Andy Latto albert@hplahj3.hpl.hp.com Albert Jeans kirshenbaum@hplms26.hpl.hp.com Evan Kirshenbaum DAVID_GIBBONS@HP-Sonoma-om1.om.hp.com David Gibbons cmr@iisc.com Charles Richmond paxil@interlog.com Trevor Tymchuk pkb@io.com Phil Brownfield zephyn@IO.COM Keith E Peyton weckels@mercury.jorsm.com Warren J. Eckels ataru@bambam.magiccarpet.com Ataru Moroboshi gregfra@microsoft.com Greg Franklin Michael_Chachich_Tk@dev.japan.ml.com Michael Chachich sarah.acker@beta.msoasis.com Sarah Acker olav@viking.mv.com Olav Nieuwejaar stu@valinor.mythical.com Stu Labovitz leigh@nbi.com Leigh Melton eschaal@nbn.com Ernest Schaal bobc@sannsm.sandiegoca.ncr.com Robert Crawford gogaku@ix.netcom.com Benjamin Barrett tgriff@ix.netcom.com Tom Griffin wallyj@ix.netcom.com Wally Jansen catseye@netcom.com Mark Kupferman rdm@netcom.com Dick Moores rajesh@nukohost.nuko.com Rajesh Raman mrc@Panda.COM Mark Crispin tindall@panix.com Bruce Tindall ak71@dial.pipex.com Robert Dicken NTKY01A@prodigy.com DON HORIUCHI mrosenlof@qualcomm.com Mike Rosenlof terasawa@qualcomm.com Daisuke Terasawa adam@rosa.com Adam philipp woo@seagull.rtd.com Jane Woo rhb@quest.esd.sgi.com Roy Blackmer arielle@taronga.com Stephanie da Silva KLFroehlich@smtpgate.read.tasc.com Kurt L. Froehlich godai@tdl.com Michael A. Hawthorne kws@teleport.com Karel Wm. Sebek sar@tezcat.com Scott Reynolds miande@beehive.twics.com Miyuki Nakamura/Dean Warman rbroom@usnews.com Ralph Broom ingallsw@vivanet.com Wayne Ingalls dfrick@westworld.com David O. Frick otaku@wsnet.com Wayne Simms snowhare@xmission.com Benjamin Franz BKIRSCH@YCA.COM Bill Kirsch porzel@nuernberg.netsurf.de Oliver Porzel mb@agar.oche.de Marcus Breiing martin@speedy.physik.TU-Berlin.DE Martin Schell tlawson@email.univpubs.american.edu Todd C. Lawson rick@cs.arizona.edu Rick Schlichting aotani@math.berkeley.edu Masayasu AOTANI joepet@server.Berkeley.EDU Joe Petrow md5i+@andrew.cmu.edu Michael Welsh Duggan rd3h+@andrew.cmu.edu Rahul Dey glen@cookie.colorado.edu Glen Pankow rogers@hawaii.edu Lawrence Rogers jmarken@indiana.edu James Marken dkreipke@xray.indyrad.iupui.edu Don Kreipke arromdee@hops.cs.jhu.edu Ken Arromdee bumgarls@jmu.edu Lee S. Bumgarner depaola@phys.ksu.edu Brett D. DePaola zbachore@kumc.edu Zewuditu Bachore mmmizuki@ai.mit.edu Marcelo Mizuki 20676JRS@MSU.EDU John Stone fishe@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Carwil James takeshtk@is.nyu.edu K. Takeshita plym@nyu.edu Don Plym ajbretzn@Oakland.edu Anita Bretzner cbstone@phoenix.Princeton.EDU Christopher B. Stone adzuma@rockvax.rockefeller.edu Kenji Adzuma cbs@leland.Stanford.EDU ryan ginstrom shimpei@voyager0.Stanford.EDU Shimpei Yamashita paustin@astro.ocis.temple.edu Pam Austin rick@bcm.tmc.edu Richard H. Miller r3dlb1@dax.cc.uakron.edu David L Burkhead R2BKM@VM1.CC.UAKRON.EDU Belete Muturo ng@tesla.mbi.ucla.edu Ho Leung Ng 6500hiro@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu Hiroaki KITANO lancec@dream.wireless.ucsc.edu Lance K. Chun ijuin@uiuc.edu Akira Ijuin r-peter1@uiuc.edu Richard L. Peterson hamilton@alumni.umbc.edu Diana Hamilton naru@eng.umd.edu Naruhisa Takashima gwb@n3gb.umd.edu George Baltz palukal@umich.edu Paul Alukal cmwilson@uncc.edu Mike Wilson lkeich@fiat.gslis.utexas.edu Lori Eichelberger mss6e@dayhoff.med.virginia.edu Maria S. Santisteban jpatokal@cc.hut.fi Jani Patokallio laineh@oph.fi Harri Laine Frederic.Moulin@ens.ens-lyon.fr Frederic Moulin archer@hsc.fr Vincent Archer Ollivier.Robert@hsc.fr Ollivier Robert canton@ilog.fr Eric Canton Paul.A.Wagner@jpl.nasa.gov Paul A. Wagner LINDAMOOD#m#_GLENN@lims-a1.lerc.nasa.gov GLENN LINDAMOOD jpc@hammer.msfc.nasa.gov J. Porter Clark vsunjara@public.srce.hr Vice Sunjara swain@reitaku-u.ac.jp John Swain kagesawa@wing2.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp KAGESAWA Masataka lamphier@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp Marc Lamphier greg@leopard.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp Gregory Getzan manir@okabe.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp K.M. Maniruzzaman easther@cfi.waseda.ac.jp Richard Easther cohen@allied-telesis.co.jp Hank Cohen ben@itl.atr.co.jp Benjamin Reaves eubank@itl.atr.co.jp Stephen Eubank colin@bug.co.jp T. Colin Mack diamond@tbj.dec-j.co.jp Norman Diamond melby@yk.fujitsu.co.jp John B. Melby lance@iac.co.jp Lance Cummings AA0B921@giken.kobelco.co.jp Stefan Kukula jfriedl@omron.co.jp Jeffrey Friedl meyer@ohsun01.sumitomo-chem.co.jp David Meyer plesser@yugiri.riken.go.jp Hans E. Plesser dehoog@mars.dtinet.or.jp John De Hoog duguid@sip.interbroad.or.jp Julie and Chris Duguid cpfre@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp Carl Freire monster@osk.threewebnet.or.jp Masasi Matsumoto mishler@rcp6.elan.af.mil Barry Mishler ronaldg@airmail.net Ronald Guest higak@aloha.net Keith K. Higa mjwise@aloha.net Michael J. Wise karen@cdsnet.net Karen Shimamoto kmymt@crisp.net Ken Miyamoto roussin@genesis8.frmug.fr.net EMMANUEL ROUSSIN awulf@gvi.net M. Brendan Van Horn ceicher@inav.net Charles Eicher conner@indy.net Nancy Conner kandrade@lava.net Ken Andrade JVANGORP@netins.net JOLANE VAN GORP birchall@email.njin.net Shag abbyfg@tezcat.net Abby Franquemont-Guillory williams@world.net Bill Stanford loek.van.kooten@tip.nl H.L. van Kooten nareid@nvg.unit.no Helge Nareid jbc@ihug.co.nz April Glenday rsc@advanced.org R. S. Camm chuckers@prairienet.org Chuck Douglas kelvin@sintercom.org Kelvin Tan jaimecs@mat.uc.pt Jaime C. Silva anderst@algonet.se Anders Thelemyr etxlsjn@aom.ericsson.se Lars Johansson L.P.S.Nielsen@comp.brad.ac.uk Lars Nielsen M.G.Rich@city.ac.uk Martin Rich timd@aiai.ed.ac.uk Tim Duncan sflewis@mail.comp.glam.ac.uk Stuart F Lewis hhirase@anatomy.ucl.ac.uk Hajime Hirase David@cupboard.demon.co.uk David G Brown charles@edobarn.demon.co.uk Charles Burns kazumi@edobarn.demon.co.uk Kazumi Honda Evan@evan.demon.co.uk Evan M. Jones fox@filklore.demon.co.uk Alex Fox andy@vision25.demon.co.uk andy rdragon@spuddy.mew.co.uk Jason Ullett Voted NO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- stainles@bga.com Dwight Brown ssmith@comland.com Stanton Smith booda@datasync.com Martin H. Booda lcs@zk3.dec.com Larry Smith nick@inferno.fc.hp.com Nick Ingegneri krasch@idirect.com Jeff Kraschinski randymx@SSD.intel.com Randy Miller tc@mcs.com Thomas Cuny tajari@netcom.com Taku Tajiri gaillard@panix.com Ed Gaillard kim@shell.portal.com Kim DeVaughn sledge@hammer.oche.de Thomas Bueschgens reyes@buphyk.bu.edu Jinara Reyes ml3e+@andrew.cmu.edu Michael Loomis cls48@columbia.edu Christopher Lodge Stamper patl@catfish.lcs.mit.edu Patrick J. LoPresti jggoslin@Oakland.edu Jeff Goslin kgre@ftp.lle.rochester.edu Kenton Green afabbro@umich.edu Andrew Fabbro sef@med.unc.edu Stacy Ferguson widenius@cc.helsinki.fi Risto Widenius okamoto@earth.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp Kenji Okamoto msoysal@mistik.express.net Mustafa Soysal shrao@nyx.net Shrisha Rao csaamw@urc.tue.nl Michiel Wijers casar@uni-mb.si Ales Casar Invalid ballots ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GBLOM@aol.com ! No name given LaurenWehr@aol.com ! No name given TJASKIEW@us.oracle.com TJASKIEW.US.ORACLE.COM ! No name given Peter_Berkelman@GS163.SP.CS.CMU.EDU ! No name given UGM3AA@south-01.novell.leeds.ac.uk MIGHTY1 ! No name given UGM3MAA@south-01.novell.leeds.ac.uk coolman ! No name given DPHUNTSMAN@aol.com ! No vote statement in message jay818@cris.com Jay Lapidus ! No vote statement in message g5wangbr@cdf.toronto.edu Wang Brian ! No vote statement in message andrewv@io.org Andrew Vendryes ! 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