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To: SI Brad who wrote (3089)10/29/1998 11:28:00 AM
From: pae  Read Replies (1) of 32871
 
I've seen outsiders/interlopers come in and roil ordinarily valuable threads time and time again. I've been thinking about how to technologically finesse the problem without resorting to name-calling, ridicule etc which further roil a thread or without resorting to complaining to management, which feels a great deal like "telling mommy." Perhaps give any member for more than 6 months the ability to cast up to 4 votes per month for censure, perhaps as an option on the response screen. If 10 persons vote to censure you, you are unable to post for a month. Or perhaps just thread specific - accumulate 10 censures on 1 thread: no posts to that thread for a month. Get banned from 3 threads - no posts for 90 days anywhere. SI probably already has something like this worked out - but managed by "mommy" rather than SI at large. Why not automate/popularize it?

(Uh, nothing negative toward Jill or any other SI or Go2net employee is implied by the use of "mommy." Just trying to capture the feeling of having to take it up the chain rather than settle it amoungst ourselves.)

Yes, I am concerned that "censorship" might reduce the diversity of discussion. Bears are generally unwelcome on bullish threads and vica versa. But there is a difference between a contrary opinion and a blatant attempt to pump/hype a stock on threads explicitly originated to exclude such activity. A recent example can be seen on "#the final frontier" - some nut never before seen on the thread spammed there and all over SI. #TFF roiled itself in noise, and likely the same occurred elsewhere. If members had the ability to vote down such garbage - that noisy energy would be spent with members quickly shutting up the offender, and the thread returning to normal.

If this is technically feasible, it could be initiated on a trial basis. If too many persons were censured, the threshold for censure could be raised - if too few, the threshold could be lowered. If people were too free with their votes for censure, perhaps only 1 censure vote per month would be better. Or perhaps issue all members 10 votes at their 6 month anniversary and review the actions of those who use up their negative energy very quickly.

Just an idea. I've tried to balance the clear need to throw bums out while trying to avoid a tendency to suppress legitimate disagreement and heated discussion by proposing an added dynamic to give some relatively gentle teeth to negative feedback.

Any thoughts anyone?

pae
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