[Foundation-l] Moderate this list

Austin Hair adhair at gmail.com
Sun Sep 13 01:42:00 UTC 2009


On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Eugene Eric Kim <eekim at blueoxen.com> wrote:
> A bit of an aside: One of the best ideas I've seen in a collaborative
> tool in the past 10 years was in a project called H2O that came out of
> the Berkman Center in its early days. The idea? People could only post
> once a day. It's built-in, self-moderation that encourages cleaner
> discourse and fewer flame wars. It's reminiscent of letter writing
> back when instantaneous communication wasn't an option.

This reminds me of #xkcd-signal, and while both are somewhat extreme
for what we're trying to accomplish, it's worth thinking about:

http://blag.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-attacking-noise-in-chat/

Austin



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