[Imc-tech] Re: The Many Jack Ryans and Ratings

[Sascha Meinrath]

On Wed, 5 May 2004, Mike Lehman wrote:

> Sascha,
>
> Thanks for turning off ratings as an emergency measure regarding recent
> widespread abuse. I don't know if it's possible, but is there a setting
> that allows only registered users to rate articles? If so, could you
> change the rating setting to that? We'll review this Thursday.

I've changed the option so that _editors_ can rate articles -- but upon
review I don't see how editors are supposed to rate the article.  There is
no option for only registered users to rate them.

--Sascha

> Just some brief background...I have now identified about a dozen nyms as
> being related to Jack Ryan Syndrome. In F2F discussions last night with
> several other IMCistas. I laid out the facts. I will let _the_ jerk,
> since it is just one person who seems to constitute 99% of such
> postings, have a little more rope to hang himself with this morning.
> Then I will probably invoke the more strict interpretation of the
> website use policies already adopted for Jack Ryan to his many other
> nyms, i.e. any post that contains invective will be hidden.
>
> I will lay the facts out at Thursday's Steering meeting, where I suspect
> others will tend to agree that this paradigm is supportable based on a
> liberal interpreation of existing policies, pending a few slight
> revisions to explicitly deal with Ryan's abusive practice of sniping. At
> this time, I will not be advocating a ban on jack and his multi-nyms,
> however.  Mike Lehman

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