From: Robin Hanson (hanson@hss.caltech.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 22 1997 - 15:20:31 MDT
Perry said:
>This is not the Extropians list of yore, where polymaths gathered to
>swap INFORMED discussion.
Yup. A high quality open list can stay that way only if participants
are willing to take the time to discourage those who make low quality
posts. This can be via a moderator, flaming, careful critiques,
obscure language, an appearance of boring topics, or whatever. Of
course some of these techniques are more "civilized" than others.
Robin D. Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/
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