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_at_idcomm.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_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.
>
Received on Wed Aug 22 2001 - 17:06:17 BST