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Pastimes : SI Message Filtering - Pros and Cons
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To: Michael Coley who wrote (22)2/10/1998 6:02:00 PM
From: SI Brad  Read Replies (4) of 263
 
While I don't really like the term Moron, you hit the nail on the head.

Ok, another idea that's been floated for more than a year....how about the idea of a moderated thread? One in which the person that starts the moderated thread can choose specific people to exclude (or include) from the discussion. It would only be used occasionally, and there would be a disclaimer on the thread to the effect "This is a moderated subject, participants are chosen by [alias here]."

Now we're obviously getting into
1) the "free speech" arena.
2) financial ethics...the power could be abused to exclude negative comments from a company.

Can both of these be offset by modifying the format such that
1) Anyone can respond to a specific message, by *appending* a link below the message. This response would not be picked up by the Previous/Next, but would be available to anyone that scrolled down to the bottom of the target message.
2) A parallel contrary opinion is attached (sort of like after the State of the Union.

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