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Making Scoop sites more democratic and self-regulating
By Drog , Section Wishlist [] Posted on Mon Nov 22, 2004 at 12:00:00 PM PST

I would love to have a way of automating the regulation of the site so that admins are not needed at all. If a user thinks a comment or user account should be deleted, he/she would nominate it into a queue, where others could see it and vote. If the thresholds are set high enough, and everyone does their part to participate, hopefully this feature would not be abused, plus it would eliminate the potential for admins abusing their authority.

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Making Scoop sites more democratic and self-regulating | 5 comments (5 topical, 0 hidden)

why don't you (none / 0) (#1)
by Driusan on Mon Nov 22, 2004 at 11:13:40 AM PST

use the comment rating system? It's fairly flexible and you could adjust the site controls to get the same affect. You can adjust the labels on the ratings options so that they don't show any numbers just, for example, "Delete" (which would be a 0 rating), "Abstain" (which would be a 1) and and "Don't delete" (which would be a 2) or some such, then remove the numerical rating from the comment's header so that no one needs to know how other people are rating it.

You could also make a page (or box) that shows all comments that have been giving a 0 rating and call it a queue.

Well... by Drog, 11/23/2004 07:45:28 AM PST (none / 0)

Isn't scoop already self-adminstrating? (none / 0) (#3)
by Random Liegh on Sun Dec 19, 2004 at 10:00:47 PM PST

I don't remember if it was a serious or a troll comment, but I've read that k5 largely runs itself.

Democratic and self-regulating (none / 0) (#4)
by crockford on Sat Jan 29, 2005 at 05:20:11 PM PST

Actually I like the idea but would like to see who is deleting what so known prejudices can be taken into consideration. If x doesn't like z and it is well known, then folks would like to know that x is the one that deleted z's comments.

Danger, Will Robinson! (none / 0) (#5)
by pwhysall on Tue Jan 24, 2006 at 03:56:02 AM PST

The logical next step is metaratings, where users rate the quality of each other's ratings, and so the weightings of the ratings would vary accordingly; but wait! What about the metaratings? Don't we need to rate those, too?

So the weightings of the ratings of the ratings of the ratings...

If you need further proof that such a system would be a bad idea, I present to you The K5 Diary Section.
--
Peter

There is no K5 Cabal.

Making Scoop sites more democratic and self-regulating | 5 comments (5 topical, 0 hidden)

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