Yet another brilliant idea from the desk of Matt Kingston… (How do I do it?) Over at Metafilter, people have been discussing rating posts and posters and limiting the number of posts per person per day — all in the effort to reduce the signal to noise ratio. Matt emailed me and asked me about how I set up my “hit or miss” rating system – is he going to implement it at Metafilter?

I don’t know. I don’t really think Metafilter has that big a problem. What I do think is a problem is when someone posts a URL that someone else posted a day or two earlier. If Matt really wants to get his freak on and code something spectacular and innovative, he should alter the posting script so that it would warn the poster if they’re submiting a URL that’s been posted in the past week, month, or year, etc…