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Rec.humor.funny is seeking a new person to moderate the newsgroup. That means reading through joke submissions, picking the best, and putting them in a queue for posting to the newsgroup. The postings also appear on the web site automatically.

Jim Griffith, the current moderator, has decided to move on after over a decade of service--the longest of anybody--to the newsgroup. He was just getting too many newsgroupies and wants to settle down. :-)

RHF was created in 1987 and quickly became the most popular newsgroup on USENET. While USENET's prominence on the internet has waned, RHF continues to have a large readership both there and on the web, where the web site receives around a million page views per month from 80,000 to 100,000 unique users. It's still a large quota of net fame. A more detailed history of the newsgroup can be found at http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/history.html

The original moderator, Brad Templeton, still publishes the newsgroup and hosts the group and web site. From 1992 to 1995, Maddi Hausmann was moderator, and Jim took over from 95 to 2008.

The following skills are needed for the moderator:

a) A good sense of humour! You must be able to spot good jokes from among the turkeys.

b) A good memory for jokes, to identify jokes that have been posted before. (Skill with a search engine can also help.) Ideally you've been a long-time reader of the newsgroup.

c) A thick skin, and a willingness to accept jokes that may offend some readers (to be posted with warnings or rot13 if needed.)

d) Only a modest amount of time is needed, typically just a few minutes a day to read over the queues, save the best jokes and do some minor edits on them. It can easily be done only every few days, though it is nice to get in regularly for topical jokes. But you must be generally reliable.

e) Ability to use or learn some of the older newsreading tools like trn, and command line linux skills are required to use the current system, but if these are a problem, we can modify the system to you can review the queue in a remote mailer or newsreader with a bit of work.

E-mail your application to apply-moderator@netfunny.com. If you've had jokes accepted to RHF in the past, you may want to remind us of them. Provide anything else you can to tell us about your sense of humor and experience with comedy.

A stipend of $350 per year can be paid to the moderator, thanks to Google ads on the web pages.

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