On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 20:47 -0400, Jason Chu wrote:
What? All three of you? :-P In other words, how do you keep the cruft out? Strict moderation is impossible...
The hope would be to attract people who are willing to keep the quality of conversation up there. That way it's much easier to keep cruft out.
Much depends how its facilitated, also by whom. Not only by those who are attracted. There is a "celebrity" behaviour, users tend to ready posts posted by known users (forum "celebrities"). Also follow the style/attitude of the them. If a "celebrity" doesn't have self-discipline and expect only others to behave, it becomes a mess. Worst is that most "celebrities" are not aware they are known. Its a Cyber world, no one knows what goes on in the mind of the users. The "freedom" of speech and expression, doesn't work without self-discipline by those planning to introduce new ideas and flow in the Forum. Rasat