Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Design proposal

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Tom Chance wrote:
> > We would expect most votes to be unanimous, and
> > require a 80%
> > vote to reject an article, and those 80% should all
> > have voted to
> > reject it for the same reason.
>
> I still would prefer no option of rejecting, just a
> necessity for an article to be "accepted" once or
> twice before it is on. But this idea is certainly the
> next best thing, and if people want to go with a
> voting system (accept/reject) this would be the way to
> go. Whichever one of those two you start with, it
> would be easy to change the rules around a bit once we
> get going and know better what we need in a moderating
> system.

But there's *going* to be rejection of material which is clearly unsuitable
anyway isn't there?  If the encyclopedia gets mail bombed (which is likely
at some point considering the behaviour we all see on the net from time to
time), then there has to be a method of cleaning the article base. If that
isn't an option then the proportion of useful articles will reduce close to
zero over (a possibly a short) time.

For me one of the main concerns is the "don't ever reject anything" because
I think that it's an ideal which is going to be impractical very quickly.

Paul