[extropy-chat] Oxygenating the flame in threads

[Natasha Vita-More]

I'd like to implement a reputation system, or some other intelligent system 
to value posters and threads and encourage optimum discussions and 
debates.  And I think that Board should discuss this with the list moderators.

Natasha


>(sending it a second time, I haven't seen it appear yet)
>
>Emlyn:
>>What you could possibly do is set up an email address - say
>>extropy-crap at lists.extropy.org. People could forward email they
>>disliked to that address, as a vote against it. Instead of killfiling
>>someone, you could forward their entire output to that address, as a
>>permanent mark of disdain!
>
>>I guess you'd also want an extropy-great at lists.extropy.org, to send
>>excellent posts and favoured postors to.
>
>
>Dear Emlyn,
>
>I think that this is a great idea. I would use it.  And I don't
>think that this strategy is difficult for the average user either,
>because it would just take a few seconds to 'express yourself'. I
>think that the posters who poison the list should know that the
>readers don't like their words. I think that large feedback is
>sorely needed here, in order to improve list quality and encourage
>good people to return, and I think that assigning reputation is a
>very good first step. Reputation, in free places, greases the cogs of
>the human interchange machinery. How else can buyers evaluate a
>purchase, and how else can sellers know when they are doing a good
>job? Reputation and Feeback.
>
>Presently, if you are a 'seller' of a message on the extropy-chat
>list, you'll put your message out there. Feedback for messages here
>is occasionally a conversational thread, but more often, a flaming
>thread. Flaming threads require alot more time than assigning 0 or
>negative to the reputation of the seller, and many opt-out of
>wanting to spend that time. A simple reputation assignment
>encourages more to express their opinion of that person's words.
>More opinions gives more information to the seller that their
>strategy is effective or not. If the seller discovers that their
>strategy for 'selling their message' is not effective, then s/he can
>continue, but it should be clear to her/him that s/he is wasting
>her/his time on the list (and that person is being willfully
>ignorant). And/or the list owners (Extropy _is_ the owner of the
>list), have a very good reason, based on reliable information, to
>remove that poster.
>
>In the early 1990s days of the extropians list, we discussed
>reputation systems often (in fact Robin's sig line was "Stake Your
>Reputation"). Think carefully about how important are reputations.
>The best decisions one makes for one's life in some way uses this
>data, does it not? For the simplest example of reputations-in-action:
>look to Ebay: would you want to buy a product from someone who had
>less than a 98% customer satisfaction? The feedback from Ebay users
>to push the number so high is astounding when you think about it.
>
>Amara
>
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<http://www.natasha.cc/>Natasha <http://www.natasha.cc/>Vita-More
Cultural Strategist, Designer
Studies of the Future, University of Houston
President, <http://www.extropy.org/>Extropy Institute
Founder, <http://www.transhumanist.biz/>Transhumanist Arts & Culture

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