Re: Phil Gordon addresses 2006 BARGE

On Aug 22 2006 5:12 PM, Super Steamer wrote:

On Aug 22 2006 1:58 PM, Join Titan Poker wrote:

Backslider23 wrote:

What if a site created a virtual hierarchy out of the RGP group? So the
newgroup itself continues to exist as one huge unmoderated group (as many
people like), but there is an interface that implements the
categorization
you describe in number 1. In addition, instead of moderators, you could
have users vote on which folders the messages belong in. So, just as an
example if there were virtual groups like
rec.gambling.poker.NLHoldem
rec.gambling.poker.tournamentstrategy
rec.gambling.poker.tv
rec.gambling.poker.gossip
rec.gambling.poker.whine
rec.gambling.poker.OT
rec.gambling.poker.spam


Rather than point out a few issues with the system itself, I'll just
explain that Usenet doesn't work like that. An interface that makes it
work like that would require additional bells and whistles, including a
central server and distributed polling... and even then the posts would
'be' in the general group for everyone else in the world except those
with a special client.

If going through all this effort, it's simply better to go to an open
standard like Drupal, make it web based, and get the massive
flexability that goes along with that.

If he is saying what I believe he is saying, which is what I have been
thinking
about for a long time, has nothing to do with how usenet works. It simply
picks
up the posts from usenet, then sorts them on a web interface, not on usenet
itself.

You're correct. It would just be a better reader (better imo) that
incorporates some of the categorization and "moderation" ideas that have
been brought up before, without actually changing the newsgroup.

I realize it's not simple, but I don't think it's that hard either.
Writing software is what I do, and I don't think a reader like I've
described would be that difficult to implement. I don't know anything
about Drupal, so maybe that already has a lot of the features that you'd
need.

I think it would be slick, but I doubt there is the interest to make it
worthwhile to put time into.

Backslider

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