On 09/21/2018 07:51 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
Le 21/09/2018 à 14:45, Paul Moore a écrit :
It's not likely to be a practical option on a mailing list, but in
primary school (which the whole conversation felt like) a likely
response would have been to put *everyone* involved in a time-out for
a period of cooling off, to think about how their behaviour was
unacceptable. Think for example of a group of kids taunting each other
until one of them snaps and hits someone.
With a forum system, the thread would just have been locked.
It is certainly not as convenient, but with the current system we can
set a spam filter on subject lines and stop threads that way. It is
still a pretty rough tool (whole thread, not sub-thread) and a bit
awkward to use, but doable.
Of course, we still have the problem of speed -- some threads blow up in
a matter of hours.
--
~Ethan~
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