From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon May 31 1999 - 08:22:17 MDT
Brian Atkins <brian@posthuman.com> writes:
> Familiarity breeds contempt ? It might be interesting to mod
> the list software to completely strip all identifying marks
> from posts so that you couldn't tell who wrote them.
Still, people react to views strongly too, so even if I don't know who
anon4711 is I can still flame him/her/it.
> Seriously, it seems the only solution is to keep the size
> down... if it gets big enough, break it up into multiple
> lists.
Yes, this would likely work. But it has many drawbacks, since the
activity on a list is self-supporting: if there is a lull for some
time, it tends to persist since people are not cued by postings to
post themselves. Having a large, active and fairly stable list is
something relatively rare; a set of smaller extropians1, extropians2,
... extropians n lists would likely lead to less production of
exformation even if the number of flamewars would be much lower.
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