[Mailman-Developers] Advanced user reputation/moderation features

Marlon Menezes mmenezes at gmail.com
Wed Jan 20 21:21:03 CET 2010


On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Adam McGreggor <adam-mailman at amyl.org.uk>wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 05:42:13PM -0600, Marlon Menezes wrote:
> > Individuals with larger networks on sites such as facebook etc could be
> given a higher
> > starting reputation score as opposed to a ID that has little or no prior
> > history or network to back that person's identity. This will help reduce
> the
> > possibility of fraudulent posts under freshly created IDs.
>
> The "numbers game" concerns me slightly; I don't believe a large
> amount of "friends" necessarily equates to a greater level of trust.
>
> Perhaps this may best be highlighted with 'spammers' on Twitter, for
> example (those following a large amount of people, compared with a
> representatively small amount of followers); or, indeed, the myspace
> "get as many 'friends' as you can" game.
>
>  I think one way to get around this would be to give higher value to
friends who are already on the mailing list. The real issue I am trying to
address here is not identity verification, but rather, reducing the chance
of a potential abuser who has been put in the moderated list,  then tries to
get in un-moderated under a new ID.  With such a set up, it will require a
lot of effort on the part of that user to generate a new friends list etc.


> That said, for a majority of the lists I listmaster, it's a "you can
> post to the list, once you join, until you annoy the list(master)".
>
> This approach, while being suitable for a low volume technical group such
as this, does not work for a highly active community/social forum in which
what defines what is annoying the list master is subject to interpretation.

Regards,
Marlon


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