Re: JSH: Use ratings

[jstevh@xxxxxxx]
People coming in with Google Groups can rate posts, and I'd like more
people to start rating to help me pick which people to reply to.

If this experiment works, I'll start going more by group opinions on
posts.

I'd like to try and see if more of the crap posters can be weeded out
in this way, as they are down-rated to a level that I know I can
completely ignore them from now on.

[Proginoskes]
Ever hear of a kill file?

Ah, technical tradeoffs: I expect James posts /through/ Google Groups
because no other way of posting would allow him to change Google Groups's
view of history so easily (you can delete any of your own posts made /via/
Google Groups at any time in the future).

But Google Groups doesn't support any notion of kill files.

So what's more important? The ability to auto-ignore posters you don't care
to see, or the ability to (pseudo-)"retract" posts you come to regret having
made?

It's not even a question to anyone else, but to James it's apparently vital
that he be able to break all rules of civilized discourse.

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