moderation & editorial

We have a nice page and RSS feed listing new groups still to be moderated. But not enough people are working the queue. I would appreciate if someone could look into this workflow and make it easier. I want to add 2 links to the queue page.

1. unmoderate. this removes the group from moderation
2. notify and delete. send the node author an email and then delete the node. this will have to lead to a form where you compose the email.

ideas to improve this are welcome.

Update: the feedback i have received is that it is nearly impossible to make these decisions. so lets approve groups that are properly titled, descriptioned, and welcome messaged. overlap will be tolerated except in extreme circumstances

I'm open to suggestions, folks. If you are an editor, you will see a block which reads group moderation queue (you can disable it if you wish). The queue has some questionable entries like North Texas and Benelux (belgium, netherlands, luxembourg), and Germany. Those are fine places, but they are a bit general and overlap with existing or obvious city groups like Brussels and Munich.

I'm looking for a few volunteers to look at new groups as they are created and approve them when they meet these conditions:

• have readable names, descriptions, etc.
• are not overlapping too much with existing groups
• are properly categorized (working group vs. geographical group vs. ?)

These guidelines will be further developed over time. If you are interested, please reply here or send me an email. This will be a big gift to our community, and your name will be mentioned on the forthcoming About page.