[u-u] DCB on /.

[David Collier-Brown]

I'm stealing the idea of moderation and meta-moderation for part of a 
larger system, that is in fact short-sighted.  What's a good 
mechanism/technique from the reddit world?

--dave

On 2020-07-05 4:38 p.m., Hugh Gamble wrote:

>  Congrats to Dave (no the other one)
> But slashdot has just been its own flavour of fake news since the 1990s.
> With a very narrow, specific, and privileged bias too.
>
> 4chan (or even reddit) are more likely sources for 'real' news.
>
> Any of the peer based sources will be highly populist, and short 
> sighted with respect to timespan/history.
> This is both the advantage an drawback of Wikipedia vs Britannica
> (US popular emphasis vs control by a cabal of old white British men).
>
> There is a dangerous game going on right now with the 'common carrier' 
> type status
> that social media has enjoyed.
> Once censorship and editorial bias starts (and it always starts) it 
> runs away fast.
>
> But perhaps I digress.
> My real source of real news is usenet.
>
>     --- Original message ---
>     *Subject:* [u-u] DCB on /.
>     *From:* David Gilbert <uu at dclg.ca>
>     *To:* <u-u at unixunanimous.org>
>     *Date:* Sunday, 05/07/2020 1:51 PM
>
>     David Collier-Brown on Slashdot...
>
>
>     https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/07/05/1730223/is-slashdot-the-answer-to-facebooks-fake-news-problem
>
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David Collier-Brown,         | Always do right. This will gratify
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