Name: sage 2013-09-06 2:55
DistBB [PART I] got deleted (probably because my Tor used the same exit node as the spammer). I bear no resentment towards Admin for I understand how utterly shitty this board's software is.
To Admin: could you please not use the ``delete all posts by IP'' button or at least hack up some way to protect posts against such deletion? If you don't mind, I understand you're quite busy.
Here is an update on the moderation system:
SPECIFICATION
A moderation post MUST have the string "!!mod-v1" as its `email' field, and it MUST be digitally signed (see the `pk-data' field). The `body' MUST match the following grammar:
body = tags-line "\n" moderation-line*
tags-line = tag-name (" " tag-name)*
tag-name = (any-character - "\0" - "\n" - " " - "," - "%" - "$" - "#")+
moderation-line = post-id (" " tag-index)+ "\n"
tag-index = nonnegative-integer
`post-id' MUST be the base64-encoded H160 of the post that is being tagged. Each `tag-index' is the zero-based index of the `tag-name' in `tag-line' that should be used to tag `post-id'.
The actual process for deciding whether to keep or delete a post is left up to the implementation.
EXAMPLE
Post "AAAA" is being tagged as "spam" and "worthless", post "BBBB" is being tagged as "spam" and "good", and post "CCCC" is being tagged as "worthless".
--begin post body
spam worthless good
AAAA 0 1
BBBB 0 2
CCCC 1
--end post body
SUGGESTED TAG NAMES
The purpose of the tags is to classify bad posts and annoyances to help people filter and control the content on their nodes. Dividing "A" and "A+" (good post) into "funny", "insightful" and so on is counterproductive since there is no reason why someone would want to configure their client to treat "funny" posts differently from "insightful" ones. The point of tags is also NOT to classify posts into topics.
Here are some suggested tag names along with their meanings:
"A+" : Post is very good, and should be kept at all costs.
"A" : Post is good.
"off" : Post is offtopic (in the case of strict thematic communities) or simply does not fit in, socially. This is very vague.
"spam" : The post is part of a disruptive flood where the contents of posts are computer-generated (e.g. the content is always the same or is chosen from a list).
"mspam" : The post is part of a disruptive flood where the contents of every post seems to be crafted manually by a human.
"prng" : While the post is not part of a computer or human driven flood, its contents are unreadable and it seems to have come out of "/dev/random".
IMPLEMENTATION SUGGESTIONS
Here follows an example of moderation system that can be used to decide posts' fates.
Using a system of rules, each post is assigned an integer rating. The decision of whether to keep or delete a post can be done as follows:
In table 1 we can see an example of this policy.
An example of system of rules used to determine posts' ratings could be the following. First see if any rule with the "force" modifier matches; if there is, then apply it directly. Otherwise, if any rule with positive rating matches, then the maximum matching rule wins; otherwise, the minimum matching rule wins. For example, if the rules that match a post have ratings {-3,-5,-6}, then the winning rating is -6. However, if the rules that match have ratings {1,2,-3,-5,-6}, then the winning rating is 2.
By default, posts are deleted after two weeks, in order to give the user a chance to review the deletion queue; "immediate" indicates that the posts should be deleted immediately.
--begin example
%trusted self bob ken
%acquaintances john uriel
%all %trusted-users %acquaintances
%annoying off mspam
%delete spam prng
%kill-list bertrand winston
%A A A+
pk self 10
tag self %A 10
tag self %delete -11,immediate,force
tag self %annoying -5,hide
pk %kill-list -5,immediate
pk %trusted 10
tag %trusted %A 5
tag %trusted %delete -5,immediate
tag %trusted %annoying -2,hide
tag %acquaintances %A 3
tag %acquaintances %delete -3
tag %acquaintances %annoying -1,hide
tag john,ken particular-annoyance -4,hide,immediate
tag %all some-annoyance-which-I-find-amusing 10
--end example
To Admin: could you please not use the ``delete all posts by IP'' button or at least hack up some way to protect posts against such deletion? If you don't mind, I understand you're quite busy.
Here is an update on the moderation system:
SPECIFICATION
A moderation post MUST have the string "!!mod-v1" as its `email' field, and it MUST be digitally signed (see the `pk-data' field). The `body' MUST match the following grammar:
body = tags-line "\n" moderation-line*
tags-line = tag-name (" " tag-name)*
tag-name = (any-character - "\0" - "\n" - " " - "," - "%" - "$" - "#")+
moderation-line = post-id (" " tag-index)+ "\n"
tag-index = nonnegative-integer
`post-id' MUST be the base64-encoded H160 of the post that is being tagged. Each `tag-index' is the zero-based index of the `tag-name' in `tag-line' that should be used to tag `post-id'.
The actual process for deciding whether to keep or delete a post is left up to the implementation.
EXAMPLE
Post "AAAA" is being tagged as "spam" and "worthless", post "BBBB" is being tagged as "spam" and "good", and post "CCCC" is being tagged as "worthless".
--begin post body
spam worthless good
AAAA 0 1
BBBB 0 2
CCCC 1
--end post body
SUGGESTED TAG NAMES
The purpose of the tags is to classify bad posts and annoyances to help people filter and control the content on their nodes. Dividing "A" and "A+" (good post) into "funny", "insightful" and so on is counterproductive since there is no reason why someone would want to configure their client to treat "funny" posts differently from "insightful" ones. The point of tags is also NOT to classify posts into topics.
Here are some suggested tag names along with their meanings:
"A+" : Post is very good, and should be kept at all costs.
"A" : Post is good.
"off" : Post is offtopic (in the case of strict thematic communities) or simply does not fit in, socially. This is very vague.
"spam" : The post is part of a disruptive flood where the contents of posts are computer-generated (e.g. the content is always the same or is chosen from a list).
"mspam" : The post is part of a disruptive flood where the contents of every post seems to be crafted manually by a human.
"prng" : While the post is not part of a computer or human driven flood, its contents are unreadable and it seems to have come out of "/dev/random".
IMPLEMENTATION SUGGESTIONS
Here follows an example of moderation system that can be used to decide posts' fates.
Using a system of rules, each post is assigned an integer rating. The decision of whether to keep or delete a post can be done as follows:
if the post's rating is nonnegative:
keep it
else:
if max(ratings of posts that reference it) >= abs(rating):
keep it
else:
delete itIn table 1 we can see an example of this policy.
highest rating of
referencing posts
\ 3 2 1 0 -1 -2 -3 n/a
\-------------------------
3 | k k k k k k k k
|
2 | k k k k k k k k
|
1 | k k k k k k k k
|
post rating 0 | k k k k k k k k
|
-1 | k k k D D D D D
|
-2 | k k D D D D D D
|
-3 | k D D D D D D D
Table 1. Deciding whether to keep or delete a post
according to its rating and the ratings of
the posts that reference it.An example of system of rules used to determine posts' ratings could be the following. First see if any rule with the "force" modifier matches; if there is, then apply it directly. Otherwise, if any rule with positive rating matches, then the maximum matching rule wins; otherwise, the minimum matching rule wins. For example, if the rules that match a post have ratings {-3,-5,-6}, then the winning rating is -6. However, if the rules that match have ratings {1,2,-3,-5,-6}, then the winning rating is 2.
By default, posts are deleted after two weeks, in order to give the user a chance to review the deletion queue; "immediate" indicates that the posts should be deleted immediately.
--begin example
%trusted self bob ken
%acquaintances john uriel
%all %trusted-users %acquaintances
%annoying off mspam
%delete spam prng
%kill-list bertrand winston
%A A A+
pk self 10
tag self %A 10
tag self %delete -11,immediate,force
tag self %annoying -5,hide
pk %kill-list -5,immediate
pk %trusted 10
tag %trusted %A 5
tag %trusted %delete -5,immediate
tag %trusted %annoying -2,hide
tag %acquaintances %A 3
tag %acquaintances %delete -3
tag %acquaintances %annoying -1,hide
tag john,ken particular-annoyance -4,hide,immediate
tag %all some-annoyance-which-I-find-amusing 10
--end example