dear Jonathan, On Thu, 03 Sep 2015, Jonathan Wilkes wrote:
> I have a spec for "trollproofs" which might help with moderation. Instead > of the moderator having a binary choice between "block" or "pass", he/she > can just choose a difficulty level for a particular topic which the > community adheres to in order to encourage good faith. What you sketch exists already even before Bitcoin, is called Hashcash and I have good reasons to think Satoshi Nakamoto knew it. We did run that on dyne/freaknet server back than as an experiment, pity it didn't took off instead of the lame and centralized DKIM thing nowadays everyone uses. However I doubt hashcash can be regarded as something to defend from trolls. After all, trolling is a art... http://pix.dyne.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/trollingArt.jpeg ... that has much more to do with humans than with machines and computation cycles. Regarding the "dictatorial" problem rest assured that the present situation is just temporary. Both me and nextime are leading in a more centralized way the development and community process until the 1.0 is reached. Meaning we have easy and direct reach to the big-red-button in case of all sorts of attacks from the systemd-hooligans - and they aren't lacking, there is a denigration campaign against us that has yet to be over. But no prob, is not hurting, actually its even motivating at times and our main focus is to develop our project, not denigrate others The way we will unlock this situation will be through a social contract and constitution for Devuan, which takes off from the Debian one but grows or shrinks in needed directions. Us current "dictators" will be not directly involved in its drafting (meaning who is in absolute power now does not have absolute power on the drafting of the social contract) VUAs believe in expertise as much as in democracy (or perhaps even more) so we are using some of the funds to hire a renown researcher in humanities and technology with solid experience of F/OSS and hacker communities to propose a new draft and review our process here. If nothing changes in the present schedule, she will come up with something interesting to read and debate in a couple of months from now. ciao
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