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

[Eugen Leitl]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 11:13:26AM -0400, Bret Kulakovich wrote:
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> The mailer attaches a footer, couldn't it inline a text-only flash  
> file that tabs up on a server, and reflect that number based on the  
> author, as well as add that tab to the start of the Subject:?

Why not just human myoelectricity, and a form of fusion? Doubleplusgood jargon-fu,
though.
 
> Then we would have author clout (derived from # of posts over value  
> of posts), and thread quality (aggregate of total value over number  
> of posts), without adding duplicate list load to the server. Would  

This is 2005. A dedicated server costs you about $20/month, some 200 GB/month
traffic included. That's enough hardware to host about a hundred of lists 
with server-side prestige tracking, and the usual (web server/mail server/web forum) 
in the bargain.

> also be easier on the user to just click an up or down arrow and hit  
> submit at the bottom of each email.

If the server generates a one-time expiring token for each email sent out, attaching
an URL a la http://extropy.com/vote/6c987bc1a463fa0ebfc921d946a69fc7a893003f 
to the bottom of each post which takes each user to a ranking page that
would work both in plain text and rich mail, be not too annoying and be 
fairly manipulation-proof.

Rich content could include voting with nice semantics like [--][-][0][+][++],
which is enough resolution to rank a post.
 
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