On 21 May 2011 13:52, Nick Hocking <[email protected]> wrote: > Forums (IMO) are much superior to mailing lists for one simple reason.... > If the forum software is a threaded one then it is really easy to avoid > reading any drivel from the trolls. You just ignore the whole thread if the > troll starts it or just ignore any parts of an otherwise useful thread if it > becomes troll infested. > > With mailing lists it is easy to just not open a post from a troll but if > someone else directly quotes a troll then it is a bit tricky to "stop > reading instantly". > > The trick is that the forum must be threaded. Of course the desperate trolls > will then start to put their poison in the subject line and to increase > their use of sock puppets so as to try to trick us into reading their > garbage. At this point there, unfortunately, needs to be some form of > moderation/banning (or CENSORSHIP as the trolls will bleat).
While not a forum, you do realise you can do the same thing with a newsgroup interface? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mailing_lists#Reading_mailing_lists_via_newsgroup_interface _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
