Vladimir Z. Nuri wrote:
I've posted on this subject many times in the past, and its something I like to brainstorm on. signal to noise problems on this list.
'Your' noise, or 'mine'?
generally, the moderator-specific approaches I find less palatable than techniques that can be automated. here are some more ideas for automated moderation techniques.
Here's one. How about only accepting auto-generate postings from machines programmed only to post officially 'acceptable' postings? This would get rid of the dastardly 'human element' and insure that there would be no off-topic postings.
hence, a proposal: cpunks have long advocated and hacked mailer programs to stick in crypto. how about sticking in a hack that tracks how long mail messages are being read, and send that info back to an auxilliary mailing list address. the list software keeps track of time spent reading articles and can allow people to screen the list based on the "most interesting articles". "send me only those articles that go over a threshhold of 500 combined human attention minutes".
Then we can go directly to the postings that talk about "Gilligan's Island" and "Married With Children". Are you getting better drugs than I am?
of course this can be messed up by hackers who try to skew the ratings. I would suggest a limit on the max time per article per person.
For every solution, there is a problem.
2. I like the idea of a system that keeps track of complaints against given users.
Including yourself?
just more ideas. I like cpunks generally favor a technological fix that doesn't involve bottlenecks of individual moderator opinions.
I think your ideas are a bottleneck. Toto