From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Sat Mar 29 2003 - 00:03:48 MST
Yes.
Rafal
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" <sentience@pobox.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 11:51 PM
Subject: META: Enforcement of mandatory subject labeling
> 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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