OT: Scoring system for messages to avoid annoying dweebs?

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Don Maslin wrote: Not exactly. True it's your choice whether or not to skip the message with a score of 0 (i.e. new user). But I'm sure a handful will read the message and if it's OK they'll give it a thumbs up and boost the score to positive numbers. If it's lame (i.e. uses no punctuation, has horrible spelling, offers lame information or silly flames) the votes are thumbs down and the score goes negative; the negative score is then a black flag that tells readers to beware. It could work well, but it's only an idea. Since we can't boot annoying people off the list we may as well be able to mark regular schmucks as such. Again, the primary purpose I have I have in mind for this would be to hopefully prevent long and stupid off-topic threads. For instance, this message would get negative votes for being off-topic, my score would go down, and then some people might find it preferable to ignore future messages from me based on my score ;) Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org * Old computing resources for business and academia at www.VintageTech.com *