On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > [ re-ordering the quoted text, anticipating your reply to my post ] > > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 04:35:43PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > The goal is not (necessarily to) filter the messages that we want to > > see or not, the goal is to give feedback to contributors so that > > they know if their messages were in line or not with what people > > expect on the list. The hope is that contributors will try to avoid > > doing the same mistake once that many people pointed it out > > explicitely. > > Well, I think both are reasonable goals, aren't they?
Yup. > > - having such a mechanism not only helps posters to be aware that their > > messages are causing troubles, it also helps newcomers to better > > identify the problematic contributors and they might avoid starting an > > argument with them. > > MMMMmmmmm, this is risky and an important point: do we want the > information to be publicly available or not? The initial proposal The initial mail said that clearly at least: “which simply collects the data and makes it publicly available in some way” > seemed to be more oriented to scoring single posts, while here you are > kind of inheriting a score on the poster from his posts. They are two > quite different approaches. They are different but if the data is available, it's also relatively easy to imagine ways to do that. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org