[thelist] open source development network

martin burns martin at members.evolt.org
Mon Aug 21 09:47:02 CDT 2000


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At 15:09 21/08/00, you wrote:
><< I think we're doing pretty well now without extensive moderation methods.
>  Evolt has a balance that ti might not be wise to play with. >>
>
>Ah, yes. But right now, we haven't barely been affected by the all-mighty
>crippling "Slashdot-effect".

We've had (and still have) a pretty damn high share of traffic - it's one
reason we're no longer running on Access & NT (Oracle & Linux
now). An interview Dan did with the Mozilla gods got posted
to /.

We've also had some very high download traffic at the browser archive.

However, you're right we haven't had the kind of idiocy OT stuff which
/. has, partially because we're still small enough to feel like a
community (/. doesn't although it certainly has a fairly definable
set of audiences). Another element to that community-ness is
that we're more than just a portal with bulletin-board.

However, moderation of rogue (hey! X-men quote! (sorry)) content
is something which is on the radar. It's a tricky one - how to
encourage the good stuff while still being open. /. have a solution
which works for them - we may need to develop something which
achieves some of the same aims.

Plus of course, there are legal nicities to be aware of - since
a UK case earlier this year (Godfrey -v- Demon Internet
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/10099.html)
public-created sites have some duty of care towards those defamed
on them.

We've already started developing one or two features which will
help keep us right with this - kudos to .jeff for a lot of the work.

Cheers
Martin
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