Instead of appointing a moderator, we could grow one with recursive Page Ranking (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_ranking">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_ranking</a>) (in math we knew about this type of thing a while ago because of "citation analysis", see the link).<div>
<br></div><div>Someone writes an open script and members of the list mail it with the answers to these three questions:</div><div>1. do you volunteer to moderate?</div><div>2. Who should moderate? (give email addresses)</div>
<div>3. Who should judge who should moderate? (give email addresses).</div><div><br></div><div>Then you iterate over scoring people by "wisdom" and who gets the most "wise" votes, until the scores converge.</div>
<div>The biggest hurdle would probably be getting volunteers, though.</div><div>Peter<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Prentice Bisbal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:prentice@ias.edu">prentice@ias.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 01/28/2012 05:17 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 01:29:52PM -0500, Prentice Bisbal wrote:<br>
><br>
>> What it says is that we've given up on discussing technology with you,<br>
>> because your arguments are completely nonsensical. Since you clearly<br>
>> don't understand technology, we're hoping you can at least understand<br>
>> the simple concepts of basic etiquette.<br>
> Who's the list moderator, by the way?<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>I don't think there is one, hence all the noise. The mailing list and<br>
<a href="http://beowulf.org" target="_blank">beowulf.org</a> is maintained by Penguin Computing/Scyld Software. Maybe<br>
they'd be interested in appoint a moderator or 3.<br>
<br>
---<br>
Prentice<br>
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