soc.sexuality.general Charter Interpretation
As of this writing, the newsgroup charter has never
been amended, and is still enforced according to its original terms. The
specific interpretations applied which differ from the literal meaning are as
follows.
- Autorejection (reject criterion #1)
- Several objections were raised to this provision during the CFV (Call for
Votes) stage of s.s.g's creation. At the time, the proposed charter
was not altered to address those concerns. However, this provision of the
charter is interpreted to mean that the robomoderation software is configured
to address the other rejection criteria. Most often this focuses on
detection and automatic rejection of spam (criterion #4). It may also be used as mechanism to enforce
sender blacklisting as provided by criterion #12.
- Trolling (reject criterion #10)
- Trolling posts are defined by the charter as articles posted "for the sole
purpose of disrupting the newsgroup." By its nature, trolls are difficult to
identify unambiguously, and the purpose of the article is often not certain.
The moderators will often evaluate posts for troll-ishness by studying
crossposting and followup-to header choices, and the history of the poster if
any can be found. In this specific case, we often transfer the burden of
proof to the poster, by rejecting the post and/or asking the poster to clarify
their intentions.
- URL Postings (reject criteria #7 & #12.a)
- Articles consisting soley or largely of URLs are generally rejected on the
grounds that they are, by having no significant conversational or
communicative function, off-topic. Postings referencing web pages are
generally approved if they include discussion or solicitation for comment (as
these articles may reasonably be said to contribute on-topic discussion.)
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