Xref: utzoo news.admin:8007 news.groups:15793 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!dkuug!freja!stodol From: stodol@freja.diku.dk (David Stodolsky) Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups Subject: Re: Mutual Moderation (was: Semi-moderated newsgroups) Keywords: moderation newsgroups semi-moderated peer review quality Message-ID: <5056@freja.diku.dk> Date: 17 Dec 89 22:27:27 GMT Organization: DIKU, U of Copenhagen, DK Lines: 34 dce@icky.Sony.COM (David Elliott) writes: >How do you handle the case of someone being "permanently censored"? >[...] >So, is there a mechanism for dating the info so that a person that >changes their ways can "live down" their bad reputation? Its up to each reader to decide whether to "age" their database. For instance, with nn you can choose to "kill" a given author's messages either for a month or permanently. Even if all information is retained without ageing, a person could recover their reputation if a good message from them was read by one respected reader. A good rating from this reader would immediately get the message read by others. Also, new users would more likely read messages from a discredited author. Once a new user got the "Emily Postnews" view, they would, if highly interested in the group, probably investigate different points of view within a group, including minority opinions. If a good reputation was developed with many new users, it could get old users to read messages from the discredited author again. Finally, if you wanted to build up a good reputation fast, you would look for good messages from discredited or new authors. When others changed their readiness to accept such message based on your evaluation, your own reputation would become very good (everybody would read your messages and/or follow your recommendations). On the other hand, someone who added their "its good" review to a message that had received that response by many others already, would not be enhancing their reputation by much. -- David S. Stodolsky, PhD Routing: <@uunet.uu.net:stodol@diku.dk> Department of Psychology Internet: Copenhagen Univ., Njalsg. 88 Voice + 45 31 58 48 86 DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark Fax. + 45 31 54 32 11