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In lugnet.admin.general, Jindrich Kubec wrote:
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Trust me, the above statement is completly false. I think moderation is
neccessary to avoid the link page from being overrun with ads for “free”
medication and “foolproof” get rich quick schemes (among other things).
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Orion, do you have any basis for making a blanket statement such as your first
sentence? I’m not trying to defend or condemn anybody, but that’s bad logic to
just say “trust me..” and not give any reason. Your next sentence provides a
reason, but you preface it with “I think...”
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? I’m for moderation. But everybody would be one. You’d vote for
‘offtopic’, I’d vote for ‘offtopic’, somebody else would do so... and
voila, link is removed. The only problem remains in setting the good
rules with good weights.
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While I don’t think think community moderation would be totally bad, there is
one thing I would like to point out about it that I think is a definite point
against it. Suppose some spammer decides to submit a link for a pornography
site. For the first few people that visit the site (whether they vote or not),
they’re going to see some rubbish there. Now, suppose those first few people
were all kids or parents with kids in the background? There’s no way I’d want to
chance it. Even if I did vote against it, there would be no security in knowing
that I could let my kid browse safely - because there would be absolutely no
guarantee of what the kid would see!
With an admin/moderator system, however, this is eliminated. The only place the
rubbish goes is in the trash bin, before it ever makes a public debut.
Now, that all said, I would pose a question: how many people do you think are
really going to take the time to spam LUGNET with off-topic links? There are
links pages all over the place (BrickLink, for example) that don’t get spammed.
-Mike
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| (...) Well I know that there are some goof balls who take the time to use MichLUG.org's contact form to spam us MichLUGers. So if someone is willing to waste their time on that I can only assume the same would be true of a much larger site like (...) (20 years ago, 23-Feb-04, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish.html, FTX)
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