[ga] Proposal: WWW / slashdot

["Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>]

I am told that the new membership system for ICANN relies in part on a WWW
interface, and that is how "members" activate and manage their membership
accounts.  If it is in fact the case that the taboo against WWW interfaces
has been abandoned, I propose that moderation on this list be replaced
with a web-based conversation based on the slashdot engine.  (The
rationale had been that email was more democratic, since people with poor
connectivity had difficulty using the web; I gather that technological
progress and passage of several weeks since this argument was last floated
has reduced this problem...)

Note that this will in not eliminate the need for a centralized authority,
and that authority will have power: the power to start threads, and to
prevent them from happening.  I'd also propose, therefore, that all
rejected proposals be directed to a permanent "rejects" thread.

However, decisions about what's worth reading will be very configurable by
users.  

(If none of this makes any sense to you, point your browser at 
http://www.slashdot.org  and also at http://slashdot.org/moderation.shtml
).

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