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| Posted on 10-Mar-2003 21:04 GMT by Christian Kemp | 52 comments
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This is just a friendly reminder to all regulars of the comments section that profanity, personal insults and postings that otherwise violate ANN's guidelines can and will be deleted. Today, I implemented code to allow Christope and Teemu to moderate comments, which should ensure stricter enforcement of the posting guidelines and eliminate some of the noise.
I'm also working on a "trusted user" system, that would allow regular visitors to authenticate with me and have their name or nickname reserved. This will be optional. Since this is still work-in-prgress, comments on this subject are most welcome - especially on how the authentication could work.
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| Posted by MarkTime on 11-Mar-2003 17:08 GMT | In reply to Comment 39 (Trizt):
@trizzT,
I'm sorry trizzT, but this line of thinking gets old and no one ever seems to back it up with facts...
what 'we've become'...the 'sad state of affairs'..., such comments that are made sometimes, are just not true. This isn't a change, things are not worse. This is how things have always been, I've been on the internet since before the WWW,...well before the internet we had the online services... since the days of The Source and Compuserve, and BITNET.....
This is how it has always been, and believe me, censorship has been tried over and over again as well.
I've never seen a censored site, that a)censored so well no one's itty bitty little feelings never got hurt.....and b) that didn't create such a scandal around the activities of the censor that the content was still central. In otherwords, AmigaWorld.Net will not be about the amiga soon, but how effective the censors are...
and guess what, they won't learn any kind of lesson...it will fail, but they will come away believing...BUT IT WOULD HAVE WORKED...IT ALMOST WORKED...BUT (USERTHIS or USERTHAT) just came along and messed it all up...(a user clever enough to have strong opinions without ever flaming).
What you find out, quickly, is people can get upset VERY upset, without a person ever doing anything that falls into the definition of 'flaming'....(whatever definition they choose...believe me, it doesn't matter, 1000's of definitions have beent tested)
Welcome to soap opera ville. There will be a short honeymoon period, and then AmigaWorld.Net will be exactly like all the other sites...i.e. despite everything they are an open site, and just like Amiga.org was eventually not so pro-amiga...soon morphos people will have their influence at the new site, and they will not be so pro-amiga, OR, they will be a festering hive of controversy over bouncing people 'unfairly'....and they will turn on themselves, wait....
No one ever believes me in foresight...WAIT...
you'll see, everyone will see.
CKEMP, hold firm to 'OPEN' and 'FREE'...yes, people can complain about the
flamers...but don't ever think that there is a complaint free solution.
AmigaWorld.NET will be besieged in a sea of complaints...because they
are advertising themselves as 'flame free' and therefore a paradise for
the exact type of people who do most all of the complaining.... |
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