Re: webapps, why so hard

On Jan 17, 4:53 pm, Slobodan Blazeski <slobodan.blaze...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Jan 17, 5:16 pm, vanekl <va...@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jan 17, 10:51 am, Slobodan Blazeski <slobodan.blaze...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
...

But I would definately for banning the spammers like those MI5 idiot
and the toad.

Slobodan

and the Jew-Haters and the religious fanatics, and the next group of
toxic wash that wanders by.

But your argument that trolls are good for the ecosystem is
interesting. I agree, impotent, harmless trolls could be tolerated.

Few things for a potential forum software:
1. Include a search for previous posts whe there's new thread, like in
ubuntu forums. Many times I tried to ask something but when I wrote
the title of the thread system just showed me old releveant  answers ,
that will cut a lot of noise.
2. Rating system, there's a good people, bad people and good people
with bad day.
I think that everybody should be allowed to join the forum as that's
the core of open societies, with prevention from automatic
subscription, but   they should get something like few personal fouls
credit. When you lose them all you're gone. With time of good
behaviour they should be refilled.

2. Spam button
Whenever users encounter a post they consider a spam they will just
press spam button, and it'll show in the post that it's marked as
such, if there are more than 3 votes  and 2/3 think it's spom post
will be deleted  and poster will lose credit.

3. Killfile user
All threads started certain user and all his replies and replies to
his replies will be invisible to those who exercised that option.

Of course this is just an idea finding good numbers for credits and
pardon time is left as an exercise to the reader.

cheers
Slobodan

I like your ideas but we are stuck with the NG software with which we
are stuck. I don't think it's possible to add modules to Google
Groups. I'd love to be proven wrong. (Expanded below.)

My own thoughts are that anything goes as long as it is kinda/sorta
Lisp related up until you have proven you are an unmitigable bore, a
blight upon humanity, and deserve a time-out. This would mainly apply
toward Haters, Religious Fanatics, Political Freaks, and those who
just spew naughty language because they've never programmed a day in
their lives and cannot formulate cogent arguments in their heads.

Secondly, you discuss details about what's on the other side of the
bridge even though the bridge has not been crossed, nor does it seem
likely to be crossed.

Third, since I don't think the Google NG sofware can be customized, at
least some of it would have to be moderated manually. This can be a
good thing, because that would eliminate most of the moderator-
adventurism since it's just too much work to oversee the entire
kingdom. Only the worst of the worst would be expunged/warned since
this would most likely have to be done by hand.

[I guess the moderators can write software to automate some of the
tasks, though, and have it run on their own computers and have it
moderate the NG remotely. The hardest part about being a moderator
couldn't be automated, though.]
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