[13562] in Cypherpunks
Re: Cypherpunks Goals: Bad debate drives out good debate
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Hendrickson)
Thu May 12 13:35:05 1994
Date: Thu, 12 May 1994 10:28:03 -0700
From: ph@netcom.com (Peter Hendrickson)
To: ecarp@netcom.com
Cc: upham@cs.ubc.ca, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9405120948.A11766-0100000@netcom10> (message from Ed Carp on Thu, 12 May 1994 09:46:49 -0700 (PDT))
> How about auto-moderation? I came up with this idea a while back for
> automatically moderating mailing lists. Here's how it works:
> ...
> If a person becomes a nuisance, people send their votes in to the
> moderator-robot, and it tallies the votes. If within XXX days more thumbs
> down votes are received than thumbs up votes, the person is placed on the
> disapproved list.
> The main advantage is, it's fast and easy to set up. Comments?
This would be easy to set up, but instead of discarding message from
"disapproved" people I would suggest just tagging which messages are
sent by "approved" people and which are not. That way all of the
information still gets out there, even if it's unpopular.
Peter