Oxygenating the flame in threads was Re: [extropy-chat] a futurist prediction

[The Avantguardian]

--- Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:04:47AM +1000, Brett
> Paatsch wrote:
> There's no way for you to sense in how many
> killfiles you're in. You
> can still send, and see your messages broadcast
> through the list. 
> Consider this a protocol deficit, but it's locked in
> now. Can't change it.

There is no way for the writer to sense how many
killfiles he is in, but can the listserver do it? Does
the computer that filters out an email give any kind
of feedback that it is doing so? If so the listserver
itself could "moderate" threads by responding to the
democratic behavior of list members. Thus if the
server realizes that less than an arbitrary quorum of
listmembers want to read a person's post, it can just
stop posting that persons's crap.

> Cryonet now apparently has a crude voting mechanism
> (gosh, in 2005, who'd thunk),
> but it is only available in digest format, and the
> users are not using it
> enough, apparently.

My idea is similar, only people vote by filtering the
offender rather than having some sort of organized
balloting. You are the computer guy, Eugen, so can
this be done?


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