Neurons and critical mass
Posted Nov 22, 2004 0:54 UTC (Mon) by
leonbrooks (guest, #1494)
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RFC: Proposed comment policy change
If you prune back that harshly on your community all in one go, it may
have a significant negative impact on the site's character. Might I
suggest:
- Allowing subscribers to tag a post as abusive, show a skull and
crossbones next to any post that gets so rated, then three strikes and it
gets deleted. Deletions are complicated, so perhaps it would be better to
simply display a place-holder saying "Post from InsertUserNameHere voted
abusive and removed".
- Rather than simply forbidding them, add an extra hoop or two for
non-subscriber posts to jump through, such as a minimum of 2 minutes
between click-on-reply to allowed-to-post, and then maybe a second similar
gateway after that during which the poster is urged to review their
contribution for politesness, consistent reasoning and spelling mistakes.
- Add a "Linux Reference Centre" toolbox and require non-subscribers to
click through a link on it before responding. The extra advertising
revenue would help to fund LWN. Er... Wait! Stop! No! It was a
joke! What're you doing with that noose? I didn't realise so many of you
read LT! Hey! Ow! (-:
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