X-Message-Number: 30281
Date: Wed,  9 Jan 2008 12:01:04 -0700
Subject: Someone is trying to censor Dave Pizer
From:  (Tim Freeman)

I saw that Dave Pizer's recent cryonet post, number 30278, was blocked
with REPUTATION TOO LOW.  I went back and looked at some of his past
messages and their ratings.  If the ratings of hist messages were
really statements about the messages, I would expect the ratings for
each message to cluster near the average rating for that message.
Instead for many of the posts we have one claim of abuse or flamebait
and everything else is good.

Posts 30266, 30265, 30262, and 30269 are a few examples of this.
There are more.  To look at the details, visit
http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi and type a message number into
the form.  To find more examples, do this query:

   http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi?sort=new&sstr=pizerdavid

I think one person went through and rated many of Pizer's posts as
abuse, without regard to their spamminess, because they felt
uncomfortable with his content.

I went and submitted opinions for some of Pizer's more interesting
posts.  If other cryonet readers feel Pizer is saying something
interesting, they might want to express their opinion with the rating
system, since otherwise he will probably be censored.  It takes, on
the average, two "Excellent" ratings per "Abuse" to keep someone's
reputation high enough so he can post.

I don't know whether his next post will go through.  That depends on
his reputation, which I don't know, and on the algorithm, which is
documented at http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/reputation.cgi?help=y.

-- 
Tim Freeman               http://www.fungible.com           

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