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On Monday, January 28, 2002, at 10:07 , Sellam Ismail wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Don Maslin wrote:
>
>> One problem with that approach is that it presumes that no one new or
>> with a low score ever will write anything worthwhile. Not altogether
>> reasonable, I think.
>
> 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
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Received on Mon Jan 28 2002 - 18:38:06 GMT