Re: [Bug-gnupedia] A system of moderation

[Mike Warren]

"Imran Ghory" <address@hidden> writes:
> On 23 Jan 2001, at 2:13, Mike Warren wrote:
> > "Imran Ghory" <address@hidden> writes:

> > > No I think not, as it would be information which could be used by
> > > virtually every front end and it doesn't "take away" from the
> > > article so it isn't imposing censorship.

> > But this is categorization information which will change from culture
> > to culture and from user to user. Yes, it might be that almost
> > everyone *here* agrees that X is ``speculation'', but why should one
> > classification (gross though it may be) be imposed on the articles in
> > the back-end.

> But if everyone here fairly represents out audience, then why not, 
> the indexes/front ends would be free to disregard this information.

By the same argument, we could puts lots and lots of different
classification information into the back-end database, and the
classifiers would be free to ignore this, too. The problem is that
this information shouldn't be cluttering the back-end article
repository at all; will it be remotely relevant in 5 years? 10 years?
30 years?

> We need to provide this sort of classification for all articles, [..]

Yes, but it is a job for the separate classification layer run on
different servers (probably, or at least potentially), IMO.

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