Editorial: Guiness World Record for the shortest lived moderated group, "scistatmath"?
- From: "Reef Fish" <large_nassua_grouper@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 22 Nov 2006 06:54:24 -0800
On October 30, 2006 believsky wrote about the Google group
"scistatmath" he rashlyand impulsively created, with the reason:
b> This group is devoted to mathematical statistics. It was created
b> because sci.stat.math has become too noisy.
beliavsky has a posting history of only 55 threads in sci.stat.math
in 2006, and a life time history of not much more. He is apparently
NOT a statistician (by qualification) and had engaged mostly in
programming software newsgroups. Over 2300 or his 2620
life time posting history in newsgroups were in NON-statistical
groups, the first 10 of 2620 threads named by Google were in:
comp.lang.fortran - Jul 10 2002, 6:20 pm by Beliavsky
rec.games.chess.misc - May 17 2002, 8:49 am by beliav...@xxxxxxx
comp.graphics.apps.gnuplot - Feb 9 2003, 9:05 am by Beliavsky
sci.math.num-analysis - Jan 9 2000, 6:09 am by Beliavsky
comp.lang.fortran - Aug 22 2004, 3:40 pm by beliav...@xxxxxxx
misc.invest.financial-plan - Aug 2 2002, 4:05 am by Beliavsky
sci.math.num-analysis - Feb 2 2004, 2:45 pm by beliav...@xxxxxxx
misc.invest.financial-plan - Jul 20 2002, 3:15 pm by Beliavsky
comp.lang.fortran - Sep 16 2001, 7:30 pm by Beliavsky
sci.math.num-analysis - Jan 31 2004, 10:41 pm by beliav
beliavsky LEAPED (before he looked) on the NOISE raised by a few
during 2006 that sci.stat.math needed a MODERATOR to cut down
the noise, a proposal ALWAYS made by a few who hardly ever
participate in this group, but were the noise makers themselves,
INCLUDING belieavsky!
So, beliavsky made himself the czar of the group he created, to
have the power of "booting" anyone off that he dislikes or anyone
who expressed any view contrary to what HE thought inappropriate.
His fame lasted more than 15 minutes, but short enough to be
declared in Guiness World Record. :-)
scistatmath met its deserved short life in having had a TOTAL of
three threads since its creation, and not a single post since Nov 9.
while it acquired a subscription HIGH of 19, mostly with members of
sci.stat.math who had been low participants but had made errors
in sci.stat.math, pointed out by others, including myself.
It is reasonable to declare scistatmath DEAD as of Nov 9, 2006,
having sustained a life of 11 days, clearly worthy of a Guiness
World Record if beliavsky would submit it to Guiness as such.
Meanwhile, the number of subscribers in sci.stat.math had INCREASED
(during the same period of Oct 30 - Nov 21) from 1292 (noted
by Ulrich) to a thigh of 1342 oday, in a completely monotonic
increasing number of subscribers since I started tracking its
subscription membership, tallied by Google:
G> sci.stat.math -
G> Group description: Statistics from a strictly mathematical
viewpoint.
G> High activity, 1342 subscribers, Usenet
The "High activity" and diversity of statistical topics discussed is
evidenced by the fact that there are NOW 18 different threads
(consisting of 69 posts) whose latest posts were dated Nov 21 or
later.
I hope this post of the short history of scistatmath (which I consider
as an INAPPROPRIATE plagarism of the USENET newsgroup name
of sci.stat.math) a lesson to future NOISE makers who wants a
moderator to act as censor in an Open Forum in which every
member IS a moderator, if s/he acts responsibly.
-- Reef Fish Bob.
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