Moderation:
I\'ve been down the moderation/spam filtering road myself. Cam ran head along into the nasty limitations of my first attempts last week when he left a comment on my blog; because my engine had never heard of him before it dumped the comment, without telling him, into a hidden moderation land.
The nasty UI limitations of my system aside, we\'ve got a lot of systems. But they all boil down to two systems. "Many-eyes moderation" - slashdot and k5 - and the "proprietor moderation" system - basically everything else. The one thing all the systems have in common is that they a) suck, and (worse) b) don\'t work.
What the corporate media theoretically have over us is that they have resources. They have the resources to fact check; they don\'t actually do so for whatever reason, as Alan Ramsey and Margo - among others - so readily demonstrate. Resources are where we fail. Not many of us have the resources to make Many-eyes moderation work, that is the time to sit around and defend against tribalism and group speak.
It is just such a pity that the corporate media are being so precious; the only experiment (that I know of) in making the media a two way street - SMHs Webdiary - is being run by, to put it bluntly, a reactionary, intellectually lazy troll.
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