Re: [Bug-gne]the problem of illegal content vs. freedom

[Jean-Daniel Fekete]

I am not sure to understand your point.
Are you proposing to limit the number of voters?
As for the bias, I can't see any way to totally remove it. Having an 
international audience limits the bias.

Thinking about control, I just realized all the free software and open source 
projects were basically managed by very
few people who take decisions.  The projects are free but in control, just to 
maintain a high level of quality .
Just a thought, nothing else.

Tom Chance wrote:

> > If GNE is setup to allow any contents and provide no
> > way to remove harmful
> > contents, it is out of control.
> > I think we need to define some control.  Usenet has
> > a simple voting
> > mechanism to create new groups.  Anybody can vote
> > and if there is more
> > "yes" than "no", it passes.  Doing something as
> > simple as that would add
> > some control without (too much) bias because
> > everybody can vote, not only
> > Americans or Christians.
>
> That's really naive. Of course you'd get bias. To
> start with, all the people using GNE would be computer
> literate westerners. Then others who were of a
> different disposition might be scared away thinking
> its all one-sided. Any ability to block work will
> always introduce a high level of bias. We can't go
> blocking works. If we just had a "yes" vote, then
> assuming the "moderators" were committed to a decent
> resource, adverts and binary bombs etc. wouldn't get a
> "yes" vote, so they wouldn't get in. Anything else
> would be sure to get in because somebody would want to
> vote for it. Moderators could just be people who are
> on this list perhaps, and/or people who have submitted
> and had accepted 3 or 4 articles, just to ensure they
> are "committed" to the project.
>
> Tom Chance
>
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