* MJ Ray: > Jurij Smakov <ju...@wooyd.org> wrote: [...] >> So, what can we do about? During a little brainstorming session on IRC >> last night a following idea has emerged: let's have a way to express >> our opinion about the mailing list posts. [...] > > So, people who remain on the debian mailing lists have a poor > understanding of what should appear a good mailing list, but having > those same people express their opinion about what is good on a > mailing list will improve matters? In short, we are going to use > the "buggy" list memberships's views to repair the lists?
The proposal just assumes that there is a sufficiently large number of readers who feed the moderation database. This looks like a reasonable assumption to me. What I like about this proposal is that it will separate those who are merely obnoxious in terms of behavior in mailing list discussions, and those who intent to disrupt our community, for whatever reason, using whatever means it takes. I don't particularly like the policy implications, but if most data is published (maybe after slight anonymiziation) and the scoring is done locally, it should be fairly transparent and hard to abuse with good intentions. (I worry mor about misuse by well-meaning project members, the lunatic fringe won't care anyway.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org