17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
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