[extropy-chat] META: ExI List Quality & Future

[Dirk Bruere]

On 2/21/06, Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:
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>
> How about this?  Anyone who wants to help moderate the list, can
> register for that Web board with the same email address as used
> to subscribe to this list.  Then, whenever they see something
> that in their opinion requires moderation, they log on to the
> board and give karma, Slashdot-style (although, not tracked
> long-term), with negative and positive karma cancelling out.
> Any poster who reaches a certain threshold of positive karma
> over a certain time period (say, a day) will be automatically
> sent an email saying so.  Any poster who reaches a certain
> threshold of negative karma over a certain time period will be
> temporarily banned from posting to the email list - and, again,
> get an email explaining this (including which emails were
> objected to and by how much, in case people are objecting to a
> certain thread and anyone participating in it).  Any poster who
> accumulates a certain number of karma-temp-bans in a certain
> space of time will be temp-banned for a longer period - say, 3
> bans in a week means a month-long temp-ban - plus the list
> admins will be notified.  Using the example timeframes, the
> admins then have a month to decide if the temp-ban should be
> made permanent.


Superficially it sounds good.
However a side effect is going to be the ostracisation of dissenting voices
by a kind of mob rule.
Now, that may be all well and good since it would ensure a relatively
homogeneous group in terms of overall worldview and limiting of extremes of
opinion (or truth - people can equally dissent over the posting of accurate
but unpleasant data). If that's where you want to go, then fine.

Dirk
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