The web has smaller discussion groups, but I still like to be able to have the equivalent of a .newsrc and the ability to navigate comment trees, and I think I'm not the only one. Have you seen anything on the web which supports long discussions as well as trn or slrn did?
Some of the high-comment blogs *do* have energetic hands-on moderation. Sometimes it's paid (Boing-boing, I think, and definitely Ta Nehisi Coates), sometimes it's done as a labor of love (Making Light, Kate Harding's Shapely Prose).
You're backing my theory that the reason *rn hasn't been adapted for the web is that usenet has acquired such a bad reputation that people don't want to do something associated with it.
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Date: 2010-04-30 03:33 pm (UTC)Some of the high-comment blogs *do* have energetic hands-on moderation. Sometimes it's paid (Boing-boing, I think, and definitely Ta Nehisi Coates), sometimes it's done as a labor of love (Making Light, Kate Harding's Shapely Prose).
You're backing my theory that the reason *rn hasn't been adapted for the web is that usenet has acquired such a bad reputation that people don't want to do something associated with it.