Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

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1. In the old days, when people would you know, have a skull as say a paperweight or around to have dramatic soliloquies to, like.... how did they get the brain out of the skull? Nowadays if you're making a skull, I bet they dissolve it with chemicals or something, but in the old days, what happened? Does the brain dissolve, sorta? Does it come out of the nose or the ears? Do they do something to get it out? I recall when making mummies they would remove the brain through the nose, IIRC.

2. Continuing on the "delete positive comments," it would be interesting if we had the ability on LJ type journaling services to easily set a default alternate way of showing comments. In other words, so we could have default view=flat if we wanted it that way, or we could change the ordering to show new comments on top instead of old comments, or have comment threads that had new replies float to the top instead.

3. On types of moderation of comments: (Summing up of the discussion in post below)

Right now the way LJ is, is that there are few social moderation tools for comms, meaning that the only person who can mod are the moderators (well, actually the maintainers) and the poster. In other foras, such as reddit and slashdot, there are ways that the other members may moderate comments, such as karma. Karma has certain negative aspects that I am not sure about, and I don't think all communities are suited for such a degree of self-moderation.

Moderation can exist, among other things, to a) identify, and possible make invisible "bad" comments, and b) to elevate and make more visible "good" comments, however 'good' and 'bad are defined.

more rambling )

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