Anne,
I do think you misinterpreted what I was suggesting and perhaps the project. The
artificial intelligence tool is currently being trained using volunteers to rank messages,
but once launched it would operate and only need humans for maintenance, I imagine.
--
Jackie Koerner
On Feb 12, 2017, at 5:38 PM, Risker
<risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 12 February 2017 at 17:22, Jonathan Cardy
<werespielchequers(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Risker,
Clearly not everyone would opt into it if there was an option to do so. Do you object to
the idea of developing an option to opt in to email filtering?
Regards
Jonathan/WereSpielChequers
Yes, I do, to be honest. The other proposals included in this discussion would be far,
far more effective in limiting unwanted or inappropriate emails, without requiring the
need to recruit and screen a large number of volunteers to "screen out"
inappropriate emails. Honestly, the idea that we'd want people to turn their volunteer
time over to screening emails rather than doing everything else that needs to be done is
kind of worrisome; current volunteers already have a plethora of activities to participate
in, many of which can also assist in harassment reduction, and I'm not sure I'd
like to know the psychological profile of people who would volunteer specifically to
screen emails. Hiring staff to do this would be outrageous, both from the optics
perspective, and more importantly from the cost perspective; the $500,000 grant would
probably not even cover a year's worth of salaries.
There are some truly excellent ideas on how to manage email harassment already in this
thread, most particularly those that center on the individual users selecting with whom
they wish to correspond off-wiki. I think these have a lot of potential to provide
support to our volunteers. Do keep in mind, though, that a disproportionate number of
users who have been on the receiving end of email harassment are those who are expected to
be available via email, and for whom much email would include confidential or private
information relating to their volunteer tasks: oversighters, checkusers, Arbcom members,
and in some cases administrators. It would be inappropriate for them to use moderated
email.
Risker/Anne
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