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From: macrakis@harvard.ARPA (Stavros Macrakis)
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Subject: Re: Software to screen future net news.
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Date: Tue, 8-Jan-85 21:28:23 EST
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`Software moderators' seem like a non-solution to a non-problem.

What I want for bulletin boards is some better software for reading
them, allowing for `reviewing'.  As each user reads the news, hse types
mini-comments, like 0 (quality) 9 (quality) s (scurrilous) o (obscene)
h (attempt at humor) r (redundant) x (irrelevant to this group).

Each user would also have a database defining hirs tastes vis-a-vis
other's judgements.  I might consider most material on some group to
be garbage, so I only see it if someone I trust considers it interesting.
Conversely, I might expect another group's messages interesting until
proven otherwise, and so I might exclude them only if someone I trust
reviews them badly.  I might want to delay judgement until a day or a
trusty review has come in.

Anyone want to try to implement this?  I suspect this conventional
programming task would produce something much more useful than some
pseudo-AI pseudo-moderator.