X-Message-Number: 31599
From: "Kennita (Go Cryo!)" <>
Subject: Re: Flav / Rudi
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:01:27 -0700
References: <>

<flash> One thing that I think would help the civility
of many mailing lists would be enforced delay.  What if
every message waited in a "ready-to-send" box for some
number of hours (say, three) before being sent?  During
that time, only the author would be able to see it, and
he/she would be able to edit it or retract it completely.
This could cut down on rapid-fire, heat-of-the-moment
responses.

Another idea:  the "flammability rating".  High-flammability
messages would, for example, contain superlatives such as
"totally", "completely", and "absolutely"; adjectives like
"evil", "deceitful", and "idiotic"; and rhetorical questions
(I'm not sure how best to identify these, but they often
seem to be used in an inflammatory manner).  When a message
goes on the "ready-to-send" queue, the sender can receive
an rating of the message's flammability; maybe lower-
flammability messages can be kept in the queue for a shorter
time than high-flammability ones, with a minimum of (say)
one hour.  (Semi-)moderated forums could have a moderator
override that would allow the moderator to authorize urgent
messages to go out immediately.

I realize these suggestions wouldn't apply to Cryonet in
its current once-a-day form, but I think that FlameCheck
and StopMeBeforeI plugins might do some good if
implemented on other fora.

Live long and prosper,
Kennita


Shannon <> wrote:

> I understand the need for sarcasm or gentle ribbing at times--but  
> outright public criticism of others doesn't provide much to our  
> community. I think when people post, they inherently feel that  
> others will mostly agree with the. I know my words will be taken  
> hundreds of different ways by people each time I post.  Anyone,  
> colleagues, friends--my children, can read them some day. Studies do  
> show that people are more polite on-line in comment fields and  
> forums when they use their real names, and one of our problems here  
> at cryo-net is that a few people like to hide behind pseudonyms so  
> they can complain about others.
> ...
> As the Chair of Immortality Institute, a quite active forum and as a  
> navigator-I've been involved in many discussions of how we should  
> moderate our on-line community, generally we give warnings and then  
> a period of banning for "cooling off" when a person engages in ad  
> hominem or personal attacks.
> ...

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