From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Mar 28 2003 - 21:51:48 MST
Well, just out of curiousity, with all these nonlabeled vitriolic useless
flames filling up my Extropians mailbox, I checked my Trash to see whether
*anyone* was still using the IRAQ keyword. And what do you know, all the
*intelligent* posts were politely using the IRAQ keyword and had thus been
moved to the Trash.
The Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again.
I move to make the inclusion of the IRAQ keyword a mandatory list rule
enforceable by temporary bans on posting - i.e., anyone who posts an IRAQ
message without an IRAQ keyword will be asked not to post for two days, as
a gentle reminder. All messages, flames, uncivil retorts and heated
remarks even loosely related to Iraq should get an IRAQ label, in addition
to any POLITICS or WAR labels. Why? Because I don't want to lose all
POLITICS posts just to filter out the Iraq flamewar - someone might have
something real to say at some point. And plonking WAR would also plonk
"warning", "warm weather" and so on.
Do I hear a second?
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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