RFC: Proposed comment policy change

Posted Nov 21, 2004 13:09 UTC (Sun) by hingo (guest, #14792)
Parent article: RFC: Proposed comment policy change

I'm a subscriber.

As long as the signal-to-noise ratio is something like 33 600 / 30, in other words 0.1 % are trolls, I think this would do more harm than good. Also, I think the community on lwn is pretty strong in keeping the trolls away. Normally there will be 1-3 comments rather respectfully asking the troller to go away, and people won't think about it much more. In fact, this week was the first time ever I saw two trolls in the same thread.

I would let it be for now. My limit would be that when we see two trolls going against each other in a thread that's longer than 2 comments, then it's time to do something.

Whatever happens, Mr Corbet has the right approach. There is no point in spending weeks coding an elaborate filtering system, when we really don't have a problem. Limit comments to subscribers if you will, but KISS.