Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 23:48:53 +0000
Subject: Re: AUT: Remove Scott from this list!
From: svejk <anterotesis-AT-yahoo.co.uk>



On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 09:08  pm, Dave Graham wrote:

>
> A long time ago Ben Seattle made a very interesting argument about how 
> a
> new movement would clarify its ideas - using cyberspace. One of his
> proposals was what he called a 'bozo filter' - people posting stuff 
> that
> most others disagreed with would after a while simply find their posts
> ignored so that their social 'space' would become much reduced.
>

Sounds like Slash - a system for communal moderation of web forums, 
exemplified by www.slashdot.org. The Interactivist Info Echange uses it 
(http://slash.autonomedia.org/)
For technical details see http://slashcode.com/ - which doesn't really 
describe what it does.
It's free/open source software.

>
> As a matter of interest how many people on the list are using the 
> delete
> button as the 'bozo filter'?
>

Everything from Scott gets automatically deleted thanks to my filters. 
I don't have time for trolls, and it removes the temptation to feed 
them.

John

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