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Cathal Garvey cathalgarvey at cathalgarvey.me
Mon Jan 20 03:33:54 PST 2014


> you're still
> complaining about having to infrequently operate a trivial mail filter
> to avoid trollbait?

Should I blacklist the Austrian remailer then, and cut out all decent
uses of it as well as the bullshit? How about people who are fairly
high-signal until they get into mud-wrestling?

Humans are hard to "filter". If they weren't, they'd be really dull.

On 20/01/14 11:27, coderman wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:50 AM, Cathal Garvey
> <cathalgarvey at cathalgarvey.me> wrote:
>> ...
>> Secondly, it's true that cheap ano/pseudo/nymity seems to permit people
>> to express personality traits they would moderate if they had a
>> reputation to maintain.
> 
> related: http://xkcd.com/137/
> 
> 
>> All very navel-gaze-y way of saying that Mailing lists are far more
>> prone to the tragedy of the commons...
> 
> it is the year 2014. we have classification systems, labeling systems,
> tagclouding systems, machine learning systems, ... and you're still
> complaining about having to infrequently operate a trivial mail filter
> to avoid trollbait?
> 
> 
> 
> [my contempt for this thread well reflected via large attachment!]
> 
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