Comments on: Separate slurs from the content in message boards http://stealthisidea.com/articles/insultfirst/ Philip Haine's articles on Product Vision, Innovation and Design Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:38:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Philip Haine http://stealthisidea.com/articles/insultfirst/comment-page-1/#comment-2112 Philip Haine Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:01:39 +0000 http://stealthisidea.com/?p=49#comment-2112 <a href="http://www.slashdot.org/" rel="nofollow">Slashdot's</a> community rating scheme is a good precedent for filtering out garbage. They don't separate out insults from comments as suggested here, but readers do get to rank each posting. Only the more highly ranked articles are visible by default. This lets casual readers skim the cream-of-the-crop feedback. However with the hierarchical threading plus filtering, it gets rather messy, and some posts lose their contexts. Slashdot’s community rating scheme is a good precedent for filtering out garbage. They don’t separate out insults from comments as suggested here, but readers do get to rank each posting. Only the more highly ranked articles are visible by default.

This lets casual readers skim the cream-of-the-crop feedback. However with the hierarchical threading plus filtering, it gets rather messy, and some posts lose their contexts.

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