Chris, (01)
I'm late to the party on this thread, but nothing new. (02)
I view the Ontolog forum as a valuable communication mechanism.
With any such mechanism, noise is to be expected. (03)
For the particular type of noise being addressed by this thread
there are less draconian measures that can be employed for noise
reduction. The simplest I can think of is shunning the source of
the noise or just ignoring it. (04)
It may be the case that not all participants are sufficiently versed
in detecting or avoiding noise. If that's the case a bit of education
may suffice. (05)
Thoughts? (06)
Todd (07)
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Chris Welty
> Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 10:34 AM
> To: [ontolog-forum]
> Subject: [ontolog-forum] Tighter control of ontolog forum?
>
>
> As many of you have no doubt heard, Wikipedia, aggressive
> bastion of open
> collaboration, is strongly considering finally giving in and
> closing its
> editorial process somewhat. The new model being proposed and
> supported by a
> majority of wikipedians, including its founder, is that
> anyone will be able to
> edit, but all edits (perhaps constrained to "all edits on
> higher traffic pages")
> will need to be approved by a "trusted" editor, of which
> there are many
> (thousands?).
>
> Pure openness was key to bootstrapping wikipedia's content,
> but now that it is
> among the most frequented and trusted web sites, it has
> become a common target
> of spam, pranks, and general maliciousness.
>
> I know there are many in ontolog who prefer a purely open
> forum, but I think the
> failure of SUO and the continuing nonsense in this forum -
> which make it the
> butt of many jokes and keeps a lot of otherwise serious
> ontology people away (I
> include myself in this category, you may argue with the
> "otherwise serious" bit)
> - are evidence that the open model doesn't work here.
>
> This forum is not taken seriously because it is too open. I
> suggest adopting a
> model like the one Wikipedia is considering, in which we
> establish a sort of
> active editorial board - a group of trusted moderators rather
> than just one, any
> of whom can approve a post and thus the flow of information
> will not be
> significantly slowed, power and control will not be in the
> hands of one person,
> and the quality will increase.
>
> --
> Dr. Christopher A. Welty IBM Watson Research Center
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