RFD: reorganization of rec.arts.anime.* (LAST CALL FOR COMMENTS)
The Big-8 Management Board
reorganization of rec.arts.anime.*
This is a formal Request For Discussion (RFD) for the bulk creation of several
Usenet newsgroups, as listed below:
PROCEDURE:
The B8MB plans to begin voting on this proposal after five days. Please
offer any final discussion or comments before the end of this waiting
period. Voting may take up to one week (7 days); a result will be posted
following the end of the voting period.
All discussion of this proposal should be posted to news.groups.proposals.
NEWSGROUPS:
rec.arts.anime.games Group will be removed.
rec.arts.anime.models Group will be removed.
rec.arts.anime.music Group will be removed.
SUMMARY OF DISCUSSION:
The summary of the discussion seemed fairly positive, and concluded months
ago. The Board has taken the issue to a vote.
RATIONALE: reorganization of rec.arts.anime.*
First the numbers -- the first number is the total posts for the year 2007,
and the second number is the total posts for the month of December 2007.
rec.arts.anime.creative 133 4
rec.arts.anime.fandom 524 18
rec.arts.anime.games 4 0
rec.arts.anime.info 33 3
rec.arts.anime.marketplace 266 17
rec.arts.anime.models 55 2
rec.arts.anime.music 64 5
[There were 10s of 1000s of posts in rec.arts.anime.misc last year.]
As can be seen by the above numbers, four newsgroups had less than 100 posts
in all of last year [2007]. rec.arts.anime.info is a moderated newsgroup
that had an unhealthy moderator that recently passed away, hence the low
traffic. Furthermore, there is some desire to retain the newsgroup, with the
addition of a new moderator(s) at a later date.
Of the remaining three, what little discussion there was previously in
rec.arts.anime.games and rec.arts.anime.music, has migrated to
rec.arts.anime.misc. rec.arts.anime.models is mostly eBay ads with the rare
on-topic post garnering one to zero replies. Given the near absence of
on-topic traffic, I propose the removal of these three newsgroups.
HISTORY:
All three were newgrouped as part of the second rec.arts.anime.*
sub-hierarchical reorganization on March 18, 1996.
CHARTER:
No charter offered
DISTRIBUTION:
This document has been posted to the following newsgroups:
news.announce.newgroups (moderated)
news.groups.proposals (moderated)
rec.arts.anime.games
rec.arts.anime.models
rec.arts.anime.music
PROPONENT:
Rob Maxwell <robu...@excite.com>
CHANGE HISTORY:
2008-01-15 1st RFD
2008-03-12 2nd RFD/LCC