On Aug 15, 2016, at 03:17 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
(b) Mailman 3 (immature next-generation mailing list).
By "maturity" I means that as far as I know the upstream project believes the platform to be feature-rich, and may not be excited by the idea of supporting our use case.
Just to be clear, I very definitely support such use cases in Mailman 3. Finding resources and volunteers to work on them is another matter. ;)
4. Identify features that help address issues defined in 1.
(c) Manual thread muting.
Given sufficient input from moderators (a scarce resource), I could imagine MM3 supporting thread muting. Of course, given the nature of email, someone who is really intent on spinning off a new thread could remove the relevant headers that attach messages to said thread.
(f) "Voting" to identify bad actors, thus empowering moderators.
(g) "Voting" to identify good actors, to automatically identify and/or promote potential moderators from the population of frequent posters.
In Launchpad's implementation of mailing lists, we do have a reputation system, although it's rarely used and not exposed in the ui. I'd like to see the same basic system in MM3, which wouldn't be so hard, although of course with ui exposure. A reputation can be assigned to any user, and that reputation could be used to perform some automated action, such as discarding, rejecting, or holding their messages. Cheers, -Barry