From: Natasha Vita-More (natasha@natasha.cc)
Date: Sat Jun 19 1999 - 09:43:13 MDT
At 09:18 AM 6/19/99 -0400, you wrote:
>It might be interesting to see a system that allowed a maximum number of
>posts per day to newcomers. People could vote on each post, if they want to
>see more or less of that author, topic, whatever. Then people's posting
>quota could be adjusted accordingly. If there were no size limits, people
>could still squeeze all their stuff into one post per day. It would just be
>easier to skip. If they were popular and widely received, they would have
>more posts per day. As flame wars erupted, people could squash the flamer's
>posting rights by popular consensus.
Those posting for the first few times could be anyone -- someone who has
never discussed extropian idea before *or* a well versed extropian who
hasn't been on this list before.
Voting on whose posts are more popular than someone else's squelches
creativity. Judging writings puts a lot of pressure on the posters and it
would seem to me that common sense might be a better quality to encourage
in posters than being a brilliant and well-liked. Not everyone agrees on
meaningful substance and the idea here is to encourage discussions on
varied extropian subjects.
I agree that the those who trample on our sensibilities with self-motivated
berating tactics are annoying, as well as those whose posts flurry in all
day long.
The best way to handle problems is to set an example (and this requires
those posting to think before hitting the send key); and to be *firm* about
what we will and will not accept on the extropian list by privately asking
someone to cease and desist from a particular behavior or to not bottleneck
our brains wastefully. I like Max and Greg's direction now, and I think
that if we ask for quality, we will get it.
Natasha
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