[Fsuk-manchester] Yesterday's talk on software freedom and the idea about moderation

[robin592]

Hi all,

In case anyone's interested, here are the slides for the talk I gave yesterday. 
I think the only one saying anything new is about 'crowd-moderation' using 
'scoring vectors', a 'bossiness rating' and a 'lazyness rating'. This is the 
slide I showed directly before the one of the chimp sitting on the bog using a 
laptop, which was intended to symbolise a certain well-known American 
president, and also the need for using some moderation in public discussions.

Using a crowd to moderate large-scale public discussion would avoid the 
bottleneck and potential bias of a central team of moderators. Crowd 
participation has already been used to great success by 
https://www.galaxyzoo.org/ and other sites in the https://www.zooniverse.org/ . 
People have discovered exo-planets using the zooniverse!

Although it's probably not as simple as just bolting a new front end onto an 
existing federated substructure, it would still be possible to develop a 
federated discussion platform that supports crowd-based moderation of threaded 
discussions using reputation scores and the like.

Cheers,
Robin

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