Re: [Bug-gnupedia]censorship

[Tom Chance]

> I don't think any one person should have the right
> to refuse an article.  We could set a limit, like
> any article that gets more than x bad reviews gets
> booted.  Number of bad review should be visible next
> the the article's heading, of course.

I agree that there should be a simple way of removing
very poor articles, and perhaps reviews/comments by
consensus of opinion. Perhaps there should be a group
of moderators as with /. that could have the final say
on removing an article. Afterall, if somebody got a
load of friends to help him/her, or just resubmitted
the bad review many times, any article could easily be
removed.

In terms of taste, I think this is quite tricky
because in my opinion the traditional view of "taste"
is stupid. For instance, we shouldn't go down the road
of banning Nazi material, because its obvious is is
opinion as well as fact. Lets not go down the road
Yahoo are probably going down. Perhaps, if we want to
be careful about offending, articles should have an
indication that they got reviewed as beign in bad
taste/ etc. next to the link.

Tom Chance

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individual effort - Fyodor Dostoyevsky"

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