Re: Scoring

[Andrzej Adam Filip <Andrzej.Filip@gmail.com>]

Lowell Gilbert <lgusenet@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:

> David Breton <dbreton@cs.sfu.ca> writes:
>
>> I would like to have scoring do something and I can't figure out how to
>> do it so I thought I'd ask here.
>>
>> There's this guy on one of the newsgroup I read.  Every time he enters a
>> thread, it goes downhill really fast, you know the type.  So what I
>> would like to do is kill all the thread that he starts (not just his
>> posting in the thread, the whole thing).  Also when he enters a thread
>> started by someone else, I want to kill the whole subthread that he
>> started (again not just his postings but the whole tree rooted at the
>> point at which he entered).  I really hate that poster.
>>
>> So can this be done?  I looked at thread-mark-and-expunge but this is
>> not what I want because when he enters a thread, I don't want to kill
>> the entire thing, just the subthread for which he is the root.
>
> What you want is "lower on followup".
> Key sequence is "Lf".

Is it possible to "decay" followups?
[ high score for direct followups, lower score for followups to
followups and so on ]

Sometimes 3rd followup to "such guys" is interesting.

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