[Sigia-l] List Moderation

[christina wodtke]

David said: "I think
overall the problem here is to me the question, "What is broken?""

Every community has its level of tolerance, which it will find.. I actually
think it might be a technology problem (I know, weird) in that we as a
community can't choose what we will and won't tolerate, they slashdot can.

I actually don't really want to talk about individuals. There are a couple
who used to show up who never gave anything but venom, there are plenty who
are here now vacillate between insight and venom.

But what *I* do find interesting is how you architect a community. the
meta-question to me seems like the most interesting to us, who design
information environments.

What would it do to a email list if every email had a rating widget like
amazons
http://www.eleganthack.com/widgetopia/archives/003729.html
that allowed the community as a whole to judge?

I can imagine something along the line of

helpful, acceptable, not helpful but amusing, without merit, offensive

that readers could select. Maybe the ratings would affect how things were
archived, maybe the offensive rating would cause the poster's email to go to
cause the poster to be "put in jail" and not allowed to post for a week....

Just noodling, but the possibilities are interesting.