The plan is to do it craigslist style. Each email will have a "hate" link you can hit to go mark it as spam or troll. Too many of these and the sender is blocked (for spam) or throttled (for trolls).

On the inverse side, I think I'll also track your voting rates, and if you tend to rate too many people as trolls or spam then your voting will also be throttled.

But, it's also just a plan. The goal is to create something that lets communities moderate themselves without too much tyranny of the majority of minority. That's why the code is open, so that people with ideas about how to do that can help make it happen.

Ok, that makes a bit more sense. It's not that no one can be censored, it's just that the power to do so doesn't rest with a small group of admins. That sounds much better, hope it works out!

A big difference between craigslist flagging and inbox flagging is that by the time a user can flag a message in email, the message has been delivered to everybody. You can't have a few people remove crap messages from everybody's inbox (right?), so if I can post without reputation, and/or signup in some automated way, the whole thing melts down.

Maybe deliver to people in a reputation order and slight delay to allow the damage to be minimized?

"Damage"? Yeah, it's impossible to stop all spam or stuff you don't want to see. It's only possible to reduce it over a longer period of time. In fact, any gear we cook up on the project using Lamson could probably be circumvented with Lamson itself if not thought out carefully.

So yeah, you'll get some spam. Install a spam filter and just accept that's the price you pay for being on the internet, and we'll do our best to reduce it.

That "hate" thing comes from your Utu project, I guess.

While I like the idea, I'm not sure it's a good idea to label it as such in the interface.

You might also have a hard time figuring out the genuine flaggings from the ones made by spambots...

slashdot style metamoderation FTW!

I suppose it's just too much to ask that you ignore him?

For fucks sake trolls are just people who do things. They aren't magical beings that need to be warned off or they will eat you.

In Adult World we deal with simply don't give attention to attention wanters.

But who here lives in Adult World?

Now I'm all depressed :/

But who here lives in Adult World?