META: Enforcement of mandatory subject labeling

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Mar 28 2003 - 21:51:48 MST

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    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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