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.
Andrea Gallagher writes:
>The filtering system that we had back in '92 didn't satisfy me in the
>end, I think because it seemed to break a sense of shared community.
>And maybe the approach of yelling at people who post stupid things
>will work, though you have more energy and flair for it than I do.
I agree that individual filtering fails for this reason.
Robin D. Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/