On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Ka-Ping Yee wrote: > On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, zachary rosen wrote: > > 1] Nodes should be able to vett the media in their repositories > > 2] The central aggregator should be able to vett the media accessible in > > the central repository. > > > > With the central solution [1] becomes hard if not impossible to > > accomplish. Either a) every node is responsible for sending an > > admin to sign up and be given permission by the DMT to vet media > > for their node on the central site. > > What's so hard? In either case, a moderator opens her browser, logs > into a site, browses the new media items, and rates them up or down. > > I'm going to stop talking about this for now and get back to coding. >
What is hard is human nature. If we create a system in which communities do not have a say in how their own sites are run - we bring on a whole slew of political / social problems. Nodes should be able to control their own media repositories period - not DMT. -Zack
