[FRIAM] Message to the non-posting 95%

[Marcus Daniels]

The bias toward first-poster topics is rigid.   Often ideas are posed in incomplete ways.   There are plenty of places to post an essay or a paper, e.g. medium.com or arxiv.org.

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Excellent! So re the thread about possible rules for posts (like the 1st time an acronym is used, top-posting, thread hygiene, etc.), you would support such rules and moderation?

On 1/28/21 10:18 AM, Russ Abbott wrote:
> I'm still here. This thread illustrates why I rarely post these days. I liked Nick's original post asking non-posters to say something. But I found the ensuing discussion of spam not very interesting. If that discussion were to be carried on at all, it should have been in another thread, leaving this one to its original purpose.
> 
> A feature that you probably can't implement would be to allow readers to mark threads as non-interesting, which would exclude them from that reader's stream.

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