In need of c.l.p.discussion

Daniel Dittmar daniel at dittmar.net
Thu Oct 16 16:42:20 EDT 2003


Mark Jackson wrote:
> Absent actual moderation your scheme depends on each poster deciding
> whether his or her contribution constitutes "useful knowledge" or
> "subjective opinion."  I confidently predict that, if implemented, the
> noise reduction which results will be swamped by the noise increase
> occasioned by arguments over whether a particular posting was
> misclassified or not.

But couldn't we use SpamBayes for this? It probably wouldn't require 
much teaching so that any post containing 'ternary', 'lisp' or 
'overloading assignment' goes straight to c.l.p.fistfights.

Daniel





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