On comment abuse [LWN.net]

On comment abuse

Posted Nov 20, 2003 8:00 UTC (Thu) by danielpf (subscriber, #4723)
Parent article: On comment abuse

The problem is not to discriminate between subscribers and non-subscribers, but between relevant posts and trolls. Indeed a subscriber can be in charge, as professional activity, to post trolls.

Therefore I would see a filtering system as follows:

A troll is easily spotted and would be marked as such by a few selected volunteers. They would have the permission to mark trolls and their decision would be public. Subsequently only the troll title would be visible, but would remain accessible as a link. Any reader would still be allowed to make comments within the link.

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On comment abuse

Posted Nov 20, 2003 8:52 UTC (Thu) by stuart (subscriber, #623) [Link]

Sounds good to me.

On comment abuse

Posted Nov 20, 2003 16:05 UTC (Thu) by minichaz (subscriber, #630) [Link]

That's just Slashdot and we've all seen how well that works. Moderation is not the answer. As I've said before: any community that needs moderation is fundamentally broken.