Stefano Zacchiroli <z...@debian.org> writes: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:35:14AM +0000, Jurij Smakov wrote:
>> It is generally perceived that there are currently a couple of >> problems with the way discussions happen on our mailing lists: > I'm not sure yet if I like the idea, but for sure it is an intriguing > one, thanks for pushing it through! I'll for sure follow its > evolution. Likewise! It's a rather fascinating idea that echoes the way that moderation is frequently done these days in large and very busy web fora. I'm not sure that the idea will translate into e-mail, but I'm not sure that it *won't* either, and it's proven reasonably effective at highlighting interesting messages elsewhere. > Now, I like your mechanism way more than moderation, because yours is > self-regulating. Still, a problem I spotted with the shadow list also > affects your mechanism, namely: context loss. What if a very > bad/unpolite/rude/useless message gets scored down (which is quite > probable) whether a nice/constructive/ polite response to it gets scored > up (which is as probable)? People only following the "good" messages > will experience context loss receiving a reply to a message they are > missing. Surprisingly (at least to me), in the few fora that I read this way, I don't really miss the context. I'm not sure that such a system is ever going to be a replacement for people who read all of debian-devel or the like now. What it may be instead is a way for people who have unsubscribed from the full traffic to see only the most interesting bits. Sort of another digest sitting between the full list traffic and developer news. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
