Writing Messages In Empty Space With GPS

meiocyte writes: "This New Scientist story about leaving messages in empty space seems very cool. You upload a message (or perhaps a picture, audio clip, etc.), it gets tagged with your GPS coordinates, and then anyone else who goes there gets to see/hear it. Every GPS-resolvable parcel of empty space will have its own web site!" Combine this with user-forums, and restaurant ratings could take on a whole new dimension. Update: 01/20 23:28 GMT by T : Oops -- looks like I duped Michael. Sorry.

Comments

Moderation needed

[Mike McTernan]

I percieve the system to be an open message board, but more intrusive and perhaps more relevant/tied to the real world.

Like slashdot, I think that the system would be used to post a hell of a lot of crap, ASCII art spam etc.... but with some nuggets.

Where slashdot suceeds is that users can moderate, metamoderate and filter out the crap. Unless this system is capable of similar checks, it would be doomed to failure as it filled with garbage and then spammed everone with it....

Long live CoolTown. Long live CTNotes. Long live Alistair Mann!!!

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[Anonymous Coward]

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What's that SMELL?

[Anonymous Coward]

MY GOD, what reeks in here?! Oh, it's my ass.

TROLLS DEMAND EQUALITY

[Carp Flounderson]

This is a petition for the Troll's bill of rights. Please reply to this to voice your support for a truely democratic public message board.

We the trolls and troll supporters of the proclaimed slashdot democracy will no longer sit quietly while the trolls voices are being silenced by the oppressive slashdot programers. We demand a code change to allow troll supporters to filter messages out their view which are rated HIGHER than a threshold value. As we all know, the ignorant, elitist authors of the slash code have tried to silence the trolls by allowing non-trolls to filter out dissenting opinions based on a majority rules, herd mentality moderating system. This created a system where moderate opinions are swayed by the majority, creating a monopoly of influence. Slashdot readers have formed a two party political system. The parties are the Trolls and the Tacos (named after their prophetic leader, CmdrTaco). When you consider the slashdot community as a political machine, it becomes clear that the Taco's have tried to silence the Trolls with this flawed "democratic" moderating system.

We demand a new message viewing moderation system where the individual user is able to select a political party if she/he desires. The following is a spec for an improved democratic system.

- I as a troll may select TROLLS as my political preference. Then, when I read comments attached to an article, I may set my preferences to view messages moderated LOWER than a chosen value.

- A Taco may select TACO as his/her political preference. When a Taco reads comments, he can choose to view articles moderated ABOVE a chosen value.

- The Independant reader may choose to select INDEPENDANT as his preference. She/he may choose to choose to view the best of each party's comments. The preference setting would be something like
abs(commentRating) >= userThreshold

- Also, some planning should be done to add suport for >2 party system.

To show support for this idea, submit it as a story to slashdot as often as possible, mail it to slashdot editors, and post it to as many slashdot articles as you can.