[Seattle-editorial] Re: [IMC-Seattle] we need to allow readers to help rate andfilter newswire spam (reply to Joseph and iamforher)

[BFGalbraith]

I wonder if this is appropriate to take to the general
list.  This has to do with Editoial policy, which IS
supposed to stay active, and taking it to the general
list, which is not supposed to be making decisions,
seems like it might be bothering people who are not
interested in web page stuff.  (The editorial list is
an open list.) To me it seems like taking this
conversation to the general list is asking the general
list to make decisions when they are not suppesed to.

--- Joseph Eisenschmidt <relayer at riseup.net> wrote:
> Agreed. 
> 
> This a big-but-intimate group type of discussion. 
> 
> Not for public, nor for small group. 
> 
> Thanks for the insight Sherri.
> 
> Joseph
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting "sheri at speakeasy.org" <sheri at speakeasy.net>:
> 
> > more valuable discussion
> > for when we are more of a collective and meeting
> again
> > as a whole
> > (may 1, 2004)
> > 
> > Sheri
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ben Seattle [mailto:bensai at pix.org]
> > Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 03:21 AM
> > To: seattle-editorial at lists.indymedia.org,
> > seattletech at lists.indymedia.org
> > Cc: 'Joseph Eisenschmidt',
> snow-discuss at lists.riseup.net
> > Subject: [Seattle-editorial] we need to allow
> readers to help
> > rate and	filter newswire spam (reply to Joseph and
> iamforher)
> > 
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > My comments follow the excerpts from iamforher and
> Joseph
> > below:
> > 
> > iamforher -- March 18:
> > ------------------------
> > > the problem of mean spirited comments
> > > in response to news posts [...]
> > >
> > > I have an idea about how to democratically deal
> > > with this sort of thing.
> > >
> > > If every person who read an article had the
> > > chance to vote to delete a comment, then a
> > > comment could be automatically deleted if it
> > > received 5 delete votes from different
> computers,
> > > then it might be resolved in a way that
> respected
> > > all parties and made for no more additional work
> > > for editors.
> > 
> > Joseph E (from the Seattle Indymedia editorial
> group) replies:
> >
>
--------------------------------------------------------------
> > > This has been discussed by SEAIMC Editorial.
> > > Thanks for your thoughtful analysis.
> > 
> > > Our new software, Mir, allows this type of
> 'voting'
> > > to occur for the ranking of articles by the
> general
> > > readership. To make the software do what you
> > > suggest would be relatively easy.
> > 
> > > Not to nay-say, but there are considerations:
> > 
> > > SEAIMC has an unofficial policy of not
> harvesting I.P.
> > > addresses from readers or Publishers. We do this
> for
> > > legal reasons, and in recognition of the
> tradition
> > > of anonomous publishing by individuals
> > > and groups who wish to so publish.
> > 
> > > In a nutshell, we [...]
> > > don't have enough time to keep up with the
> trolls,
> > > infiltrators, insane, and misguided.
> > 
> > Ben Seattle replies:
> > -------------------
> > It is not difficult to allow readers to help rate
> and filter
> > posts and comments _without_ harvesting their IP
> addresses.
> > One technical solution is that instead of
> capturing the IP
> > address itself--we can capture a "checksum" of the
> IP address
> > (ie: more or less a reduced, semi-encrypted
> fragment of the IP
> > address that would be of minimal use to Ashcroft's
> snoops).
> > 
> > >From a political perspective--I consider it
> necessary that we
> > allow readers to help us rate and filter the
> newswire--so that 
> > readers have a democratic voice in the site
> content and a
> > higher signal-to-noise ratio is available for busy
> people who 
> > don't have time to read spam.
> > 
> > And yes, if we let readers rate posts and
> comments--then we can
> > also (just like at http://slashdot.org) let
> readers choose the
> > minimal rating level of what they have time to
> see.
> > 
> > If we fail to take this step--then we are telling
> readers that
> > our site is a good place for people who have lots
> of time to
> > waste--and that if they don't like it--they can
> get their news
> > from the mainstream, bourgeois media.
> > 
> > Sincerely,
> > Ben Seattle
> > ----//-// 18.Mar.2004
> > http://struggle.net/Ben (my elists / theory /
> infrastructure)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> 
> Joseph
> 
> ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
> 
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