On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:18 AM, Herbert Fruchtl
<herbert.fruc...@st-andrews.ac.uk> wrote:
> 2) You need a moderator. It's quite some work, so it will only be done by
> somebody who gets some satisfaction out of it. This means that the job will
> attract exactly the kind of people who will not moderate neutrally and
> dispassionately. Even if they try, there's the fact that power corrupts.
> You're tempted to censor views that are too far from your own ("ludicrous" is
> the word you would use), and in the end you have an in-crowd confirming each
> other's views.
I so agree.
> If you really find somebody's views (and their presentation) objectionable,
> just killfile them (it's called "filter" in the 21st century). And if certain
> people think ad hominem attacks help their case, ignore them instead of
> thinking you can look dignified in taking them on in their own game. You
> won't.
Right. Simply ignoring posts from people you don't want to read about
is not so taxing, and it's also the best way to keep trolling attacks
at a reasonable level. There's probably a dozen ways to automatically
filter them, the easier one being the old faithful eyeball grep, which
can match a sender's name way before your conscious brain can realize
it.
Cheers,
--
Kilian
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