Here's an interesting new filtering variant we've cooked up with
Cris Rasch today.
To recapitulate: my original proposal was to establish a pair of
lists: extropians moderated/unmoderated. Everything rejected from
extropians moderated would go to extropians unmoderated that anybody
who subscribed to both lists would get the full feed, if so inclined.
This scheme is simple to implement, but has obvious flaws. To avoid
pressing anybody in a single quality metric it should be possible to
associate each subscriber with a ranking matrix against the other
participants (which could be inquirable remotely). With 1 k subscribers
this means keeping track of 1 M short integers, which is tolerable
nowadays (besides, this can be implemented as sparse matrix). Each
mail will be attached a pair of urls/listserv commands to
increment/decrement your individual ranking of the poster this mail
came from. The matrix gets initialized with zero. All positive