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From: stodol@diku.dk (David Stodolsky)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware,news.groups,news.admin,comp.cog-eng,comp.mail.misc,comp.society.futures,sci.psychology,sci.research
Subject: How to Improve Article Quality (3rd attempt to post)?
Keywords: article quality Usenet comp.groupware peer review Mutual Moderation
Message-ID: <1990Feb1.195158.18867@diku.dk>
Date: 1 Feb 90 19:51:58 GMT
Organization: Department Of Computer Science, University Of Copenhagen
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(This info is a bit dated because our yearly system upgrade crashed news
reading, news posting, and news transport software.)

On 23 Jul 89 18:11:08 GMT in the first 
Call for Discussion on Sci.groupware(.f), I wrote:

>First question to the Net after creation of sci.groupware:
>How can the quality of messages that one sees be improved?
(By this time it has become obvious the answer is - By reading comp.groupware
:-)

Events have outraced the administrative process on UseNet. While 
comp.groupware has finally been created, the companion follow-ups group, 
comp.groupware.f, that was destined to eventually carry evaluation or peer 
review messages permitting "Mutual Moderation" has not. Details on the 
situation will be posted shortly to comp.groupware/news.groups/news.admin.

The Mutual Moderation discussion I started is proceeding in 
news.groups/news.admin. I will post further articles on this topic to 
comp.groupware/news.groups/news.admin. 

In the middle of, and in part in response to the problems with, the groupware 
vote, allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) initiated the expnet.all 
hierarchy and mailing list, expnet@ncoast.uucp (expnet.all: Experiments in 
*net management and organization.). "Trying a self-moderating posting scheme" 
is a line of discussion I am contributing to on that list, and crossposting to 
comp.groupware. While the idea of Mutual Moderation is completely distributed 
control in the selection of articles, the self-moderated posting scheme is 
based upon a centralized moderation mechanism guided by the evaluations of 
readers.

Finally, Dr. S. Harnad is taking over as Editor of the Bitnet Psychology 
Newsletter. He wants to explore the potential of electronic publication for 
"scholarly skywriting." For the moment, he will be operating the Newsletter as 
a moderated list. The procedure for adding one's name automatically
to the list is to send mail to Listserv@tcsvm.bitnet (or @finhutc) with
SUB PSYCH Firstname Lastname on the first text line. To unsubscribe:
UNSUB PSYCH  (name not required)

-- 
David S. Stodolsky, PhD                Internet: david@harald.ruc.dk
Department of Psychology                       :      stodol@diku.dk
Copenhagen Univ., Njalsg. 88                 Voice: + 45 31 58 48 86
DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark                  Fax: + 45 31 54 32 11