Re: Fire Hydrant for the Flames

: I wholly support this suggestion.  It's a fabulous idea and will largely
: solve the problems I was trying to address in my original post,

I agree; a system of peer review would be an excellent thing.  In addition
to providing conlangers with useful thinking material, it keeps a steady
flow of conlang-related material passing through the list. ( :

: As another alternative, we could set up a system similar to the one used
: on the writing critique group I'm a part of.  People earn points by
: critiquing others' conlangs, and then cash in those points for the right
: to get their conlang reviewed.  There would be certain requirements for
: what could get a point (e.g. you have to write more than five sentences),
: but no theoretical limit on how often or when you can post languages for
: critique, provided that you have enough points for it.

That seems like a reasonable alternative as well.  What kind of timetable
would that run on?

: The obvious downside: someone has the labor-intensive job of keeping
: track of the points and indicating which posts are sanctioned for review
: and which aren't.  At the same time, with all of the computer knowledge
: on this list it shouldn't be too hard to set up a website and database to
: do this automatically.

How much automation can be done through the mailing list itself?  Though
it's better by far than no automation at all, something of the website kind
could be a hassle to work with.  (I'm sure with those advanced mailer
prgrams that float around some kind of tracking script could be written)

---
Shreyas


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