RE: [IFWP] Re: [ga] List moderation

["William X. Walsh" <william@dso.net>]

> On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Joop Teernstra wrote:
> 
>> At 02:55 PM 10/11/1999 -0500, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
>> wrote:
>> >Liability for reposting a comment as moderator that violates some national
>> >law.
>> >
>> The proposed civil discourse rules for the IDNO (www.idno.org/discuss.htm)
>> return the responsibility for moderation enforcement to the majority of the
>> list voters. (the principle of ostracism)
>> With a web based Polling Booth (www.idno.org/vote1) this becomes possible.

This method is fundamentally flawed, in that it permits a simple majority of
those active and concerned enough to vote to oust anyone with whom they do not
approve of or agree with.  Experience in the IDNO tells us that member
participation in votes is very low, making the threshold to remove a member
extremely low, far to low for this to be an acceptable process.

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