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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>I for once would agree with this... a one mail per 24h limit.<br><br>It would force people to really THINK about what they post, and I am all in favour of MORE THINKING in the Movement.<br><br>Still... there are too many people that would take this LITERALLY as a blanket permission to post one idiocy a day... and we would get really swamped by many once-a-day-spam that would flood the list anyway.<br><br>There MUST be rational criteria to ban for longer periods evaluating the level of idiocy of messages in the context of the conversation they disrupt.<br><br>Because there is a cognitive bias that makes everyone believe the level of his own messages is always well within the allowed limits... so self-censure is not efficient if most of the swarm is not smart enough and tends towards idiocracy (trying to censor longer and intellectually crafted messages as harmful for the self-esteem of the deciding majority).<br><br><br><div>> Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 11:15:09 +0200<br>> From: zzbbyy@gmail.com<br>> To: pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net<br>> Subject: [pp.int.general] This mailing list is a limited and fragile resource<br>> <br>> If this mailing list was a river then everybody would agree that we<br>> cannot let anyone flow anything he wishes into it, no questions asked.<br>> But in the case of a communication channel like this list there is a<br>> tendency to think that because the technical bandwidth of it is so<br>> much bigger than we use now - then there is no need to limit the usage<br>> in any way. But the mailing list is useful only as much as people read<br>> the mails that are sent to it - and the amount of time people can<br>> spend on reading is limited.<br>> <br>> Without any rules this mailing list is wasted by trolls and flamewars<br>> just like a river would be wasted by pollution if we had no rules<br>> about that.<br>> <br>> In this community there is an aversion to moderating of mailig lists<br>> because of the fear of censorship - but even having an automatic rule<br>> like 'one person can post only once a day to this mailing list' would<br>> improve dramatically the situation on this mailing list. Would that be<br>> censorship? And this is just one example - if we are serious about<br>> 'doing politics', about designing rules that govern our societies -<br>> then we should first design rules to govern our mailing list - rules<br>> that would avoid the censorship accusations and that would maintain a<br>> high signal to noise ratio.<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Zbigniew Łukasiak<br>> http://brudnopispirata.pl/<br>> ____________________________________________________<br>> Pirate Parties International - General Talk<br>> pp.international.general@lists.pirateweb.net<br>> http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general<br></div> </div></body>
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