22 Aug
2001
22 Aug
'01
6:06 p.m.
People propably will become extremely creative in dreaming up insults
and ranting topics. These will subsequently have to be filtered. Filter updates
will then become a weekly event. Maybe McAfee can do that for us. They
already do it for virus-signatures ;)
I basically believe in people's own responsability. Having a gadget do it for
them
will actually make them inclined to act less responsable.
Periodically stating the rules -clearly- would certainly help. I for one have
never
seen the classic.comp FAQ and I've been on the list for over a year.
Everybody will make minor offenses once a while but I would endorse
the removal from the list of those who repeatedly produce foul language,
bigotries or extreme (fringe) politics. It's also obvious that thimble- or car-
collection rants should go elsewhere.
As to the use of weird idiom, local U.S. news topics and sometimes bizar
acronyms, bear in mind that a lot of the list members are not U.S. natives
and sometimes simply do not understand fragment of rants. Allthough I
sometimes think that thats my luck anyway, since I simply don't wanna know ;)
Sipke de Wal
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----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Erlacher <edick(a)idcomm.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: NOTICE FROM THE LIST HOST -- a vote in favor of limited moderation
This all makes sense. The only problem is it makes
lots of work for the list
owner.
I'd suggest one alternative that would help with that ... use a list of
disqualifying terms, beginning with the various "deletable expletives" that
occasionally appear in peoples posts/rants once they get fired up. Reject
such
posts from the list and, instead, redirect them back
to the originator
together
with an exhortation to rephrase. That can be
accomplished automatically,
hence,
without burdening the list owner to do it all.
While that won't get 'em all, it will remove the foul language characteristic
of
at least some of the rants, which tend to start the
emotion-driven OT threads.