There's OT then there's posting of grisly bloodied bodies from a bomb explosion. What possible benefit can be derived from such? There's no such thing as absolute freedom. On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 12:35 AM, saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
Rules will never work for the simple reason that discussions will get bogged down on which rules to enforce, how to enforce them, and how often to update the rules. The issue could be relatively easily solved if skunks-ke was a web-based mailing-list with up/down voting features. Comments/threads which members didn't like would be down-voted to oblivion, and good stuff would be up-voted (Engadget, Slashdot and others do this to good effect). The advantage of this is that there would be no static rules in place, just a community dynamically downgrading/upgrading comments/threads they dislike/like.
On the other hand, maybe skunks-ke is stuck with an email-only list in which case some sort of rules may be in order. But to be brutally honest: if you strip out OT and ads, what else is discussed on this list? Practically nothing. Then perhaps the focus should be on how to stimulate meaningful discuss (instead of only on how to exclude unwanted discussions). Saidi