[Sigia-l] List Moderation

[Livia Labate]

: 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

I like that idea very much. Noodling on Christina's thoughts: the ratings
could even influence the search engine and provide better results when one
is browsing the archives (and we know how useful the archives are). I think
it wouldn't be hard to implement either.

You probably wouldn't rate every message but it would be wonderful to be
able to rate when a message is super useful (allowing more meaningful search
results) or completely useless (sort of "cleaning up" the archive). Some
message boards have that and it makes life much easier, specially when there
is high volume and/or too much noise -- interestingly, the community's own
actions (rating) influence how the rest of the community (who scan but don't
read all messages) start acting (an interesting research there in itself).

Humm... much to think about...

P.S: I have less a problem with the abuse than I have with Out of Office
replies. And that problem we can solve with a simple filter. *hint to Dick*
:)