RE: [ga] RE: Selecting Comments to Read Aloud

[Harald Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 23:39 20/02/2001 -0500, Ben Edelman wrote:
> > Second, first-come-first-serve has some trivialization dangers.  Imagine a
> > meeting in which the panel/board/whatever speak for 40 minutes than take
> > comments for 20.  Now imagine you are using two FCFS systems, one in which
> > people queue at a microphone, and another the online system you propose.
> > The people who queue at the microphone can edit their remarks to focus on
> > the most important thing, and also not repeat something said after the
> > time they started to queue.  The people who submit an online query have it
> > preserved in amber.
>
>These are indeed serious concerns, and while my team thought about many of
>these issues before suggesting the f-c-f-s approach, I agree that our
>proposal fails to address the entirety of the potential problem here.

suggestion - have no idea how reasonable it is:
allow each poster of comments to the online system to view the queue of
comments, and to withdraw his question from the queue if he wants to.

This maps to the physical operation of leaving the mike queue.

This of course requires that comments be tagged with the commenter's
online identity in a reasonably secure way - for many technologies this
is easy.

For even more complexity, allow a person to update his comment while it
is in the queue; this too maps to a physical operation.

But I don't think it is reasonable to see this implemented for Melbourne...

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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, alvestrand@cisco.com
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