X-Message-Number: 23420
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:55:55 +0100
Subject: Re: Would a moderated forum be appropriate?
From: David Stodolsky <>

On Tuesday, February 10, 2004, at 04:58  PM, Tim Freeman wrote:

> From: "David Hayes" <>
> posted by  (Rick Potvin)
>> Can we as Cryonicists tell prospective members to go to Cryonet in 
>> order
>> to understand cryonics?  No, we must predicate that with "Oh don't 
>> worry
>> about all the crazy posts up there.  We do have some weirdo's!"
>
> Hmm, would a moderated forum be appropriate then?
>
> I've taken to using bogofilter (a bayesian spam filter) to determine
> what part of cryonet I see.  It works reasonably well.

Bayesian estimation can also be used by a distributed editorial team to 
ensure that publicly available messages reach a certain standard.

Here are some links:


Extended abstract:

Stodolsky, D. S. (2002). Computer-network based democracy: Scientific 
communication as a basis for governance. Proceedings of the 3rd 
International Workshop on Knowledge Management in e-Government, 7, 
127-137.

http://dss.secureid.org/stories/storyReader$14



Comprehensive:

Stodolsky, D. S. (1995). Consensus Journals: Invitational journals 
based upon peer review. The Information Society, 11(4).

http://dss.secureid.org/stories/storyReader$19



The latest:

Stodolsky, D. (2002). Scientific publication needs a peer consensus. 
Psycoloquy, 13(2).

http://dss.secureid.org/stories/storyReader$20



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