Davey Shafik's Blog: Karma-Based Mailing Lists (or: how to autom...

Courtesy PHPDeveloper.org  Tue, 06/30/2009 - 12:30

In this new post to his blog Davey Shafik looks at a problem plaguing several mailing lists out there (including some of the PHP ones) - that they're a "free for all".

What's his solution to help it? Karma.

In the real world, communications pass through a hierarchy of people, escalating as necessary, passing from person to person up the chain.

This means that, given enough time, any mailing list starts to have a large noise:signal ratio,...


 

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