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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.<br><br>
Natasha<br><br>
<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">(sending it a second time, I
haven't seen it appear yet)<br><br>
Emlyn:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">What you could possibly do is
set up an email address - say<br>
extropy-crap at lists.extropy.org. People could forward email they<br>
disliked to that address, as a vote against it. Instead of
killfiling<br>
someone, you could forward their entire output to that address, as a<br>
permanent mark of disdain!</blockquote><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I guess you'd also want an
extropy-great at lists.extropy.org, to send<br>
excellent posts and favoured postors to.</blockquote><br><br>
Dear Emlyn,<br><br>
I think that this is a great idea. I would use it. And I don't<br>
think that this strategy is difficult for the average user either,<br>
because it would just take a few seconds to 'express yourself'. I<br>
think that the posters who poison the list should know that the<br>
readers don't like their words. I think that large feedback is<br>
sorely needed here, in order to improve list quality and encourage<br>
good people to return, and I think that assigning reputation is a<br>
very good first step. Reputation, in free places, greases the cogs
of<br>
the human interchange machinery. How else can buyers evaluate a<br>
purchase, and how else can sellers know when they are doing a good<br>
job? Reputation and Feeback.<br><br>
Presently, if you are a 'seller' of a message on the extropy-chat<br>
list, you'll put your message out there. Feedback for messages here<br>
is occasionally a conversational thread, but more often, a flaming<br>
thread. Flaming threads require alot more time than assigning 0 or<br>
negative to the reputation of the seller, and many opt-out of<br>
wanting to spend that time. A simple reputation assignment<br>
encourages more to express their opinion of that person's words.<br>
More opinions gives more information to the seller that their<br>
strategy is effective or not. If the seller discovers that their<br>
strategy for 'selling their message' is not effective, then s/he can<br>
continue, but it should be clear to her/him that s/he is wasting<br>
her/his time on the list (and that person is being willfully<br>
ignorant). And/or the list owners (Extropy _is_ the owner of the<br>
list), have a very good reason, based on reliable information, to<br>
remove that poster.<br><br>
In the early 1990s days of the extropians list, we discussed<br>
reputation systems often (in fact Robin's sig line was "Stake
Your<br>
Reputation"). Think carefully about how important are
reputations.<br>
The best decisions one makes for one's life in some way uses this<br>
data, does it not? For the simplest example of
reputations-in-action:<br>
look to Ebay: would you want to buy a product from someone who had<br>
less than a 98% customer satisfaction? The feedback from Ebay users<br>
to push the number so high is astounding when you think about
it.<br><br>
Amara<br><br>
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<dd><font size=2><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Natasha
</a><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Vita-More</a>
<dd>Cultural Strategist, Designer
<dd>Studies of the Future, University of Houston
<dd>President, <a href="http://www.extropy.org/">Extropy Institute</a>
<dd>Founder, <a href="http://www.transhumanist.biz/">Transhumanist Arts
& Culture</a> <br><br>
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>Knowledge is the most
democratic source of power.</i> Alvin Toffler
<dd><i>Random acts of kindness... </i>Anne Herbet<br><br></font>
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