Re: Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-22 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Filipus Klutiero wrote: [...] > I'm not aware of any software with such a feature that would fit for > Debian. I also couldn't find any in a quick search. [...] It sounded a lot like the old GroupLens usenet tool to me. http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/GroupLens.html Th

Re: The Unofficial (and Very Simple) Lenny GR: call for votes

2008-12-22 Thread Frans Pop
Sorry for the late reply, but I've been so frustrated with things over the past week that I decided to take a break and see how things worked out first. On Monday 15 December 2008, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Frans Pop [Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:09:28 +0100]: > > Because any votes below FD do not count t

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:47:41 -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > So, are there going to be guide;lines for this voting on emails? > On /., when one moderates, there are clear labels: troll, off-topic, > flamebait, etc. I think labels or tags would indeed be useful to have a structured way

Re: Re: Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing listproblems

2008-12-22 Thread Filipus Klutiero
Hi Charles, Le Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 01:31:31AM -0500, Filipus Klutiero a écrit : > A long exchange between two people can be interesting, or not. Hi Filipus, it is exactly because it can not be known if a long exchange is interesting before reading it that tools to ignore long exchanges can be

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-22 Thread George Danchev
On Monday 22 December 2008 07:47:41 Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, Hi, > So, are there going to be guide;lines for this voting on emails? I'm afraid that I'm not able answer such a question, but I can try to provide a contra-argument (just to prove it wrong or maybe right) -- if we follo

Re: Please show some respect while standing on the shoulders of giants

2008-12-22 Thread AndreMachado
Hello, Maybe it is the time to consider evolving and improving the Enrico Zini proposal [0]. Also, could be interesting to build a social comittee with people from diverse countries and cultural background. Some actions/words could become a serious problem at some social environments. Could a ki

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-22 Thread Jurij Smakov
On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 01:49:44AM +, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:35:14AM +, Jurij Smakov wrote: > > * "Vocal minority" dominates "silent majority" by contributing a > > disproportionate amount of list traffic, [...] > > Note that voting can have a similar drawback -

Re: Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-22 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 01:31:31AM -0500, Filipus Klutiero a écrit : > A long exchange between two people can be interesting, or not. Hi Filipus, it is exactly because it can not be known if a long exchange is interesting before reading it that tools to ignore long exchanges can be useful. The me

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-22 Thread MJ Ray
Filipus Klutiero wrote: [...] > I'm not aware of any software with such a feature that would fit for > Debian. I also couldn't find any in a quick search. [...] It sounded a lot like the old GroupLens usenet tool to me. http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/GroupLens.html The b

Re: Voting on messages: a way to resolve the mailing list problems

2008-12-22 Thread MJ Ray
George Danchev wrote: > On Saturday 20 December 2008 21:33:27 MJ Ray wrote: > > So, people who remain on the debian mailing lists have a poor > > understanding of what should appear a good mailing list, > > What makes you think that "vocal minority" is larger than "silent majority" > in > debia