Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 11:28:28 03/28/99
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On March 28, 1999 at 02:01:17, Micheal Cummings wrote: >So does that mean we also have new members that were responsible for harrasing >bob in r.g.c.c following him here as well. Cause since this announcement I have >seem posts from names I have never heard of before, and some of them attacking >bob in the now removed threads. Plus some of these names have added comments to >the cheating debate which are borderline dubious. > >I hope that the new members are not the same people that were the cause of >r.g.c.c being such an bad place to hang around these days. Somehow I suspect >people like sean and the rest of the bad element are still posting in CCC. Personally I would be in favor of authentication of ID's of posters, via a fee that was collected via a credit card. If you don't want to post, just join just like now and read all you want. If you want to post, the first time you try to post it asks you for a credit card number and charges a fee (like maybe $5), which I assume would mostly be used to cover the cost of collecting the fee, the remainder being used to buy Steve a few nice dinners or something. The idea is that when you pay with a credit card, your ID is established because your name is on the card. If someone causes trouble, the name and the card get banned, rather than an email address, which anyone can get hundreds of, as is evidenced by Sean Evans and his > 91 accounts. It would still be possible to cheat, but it would be harder. Someone has to do some leg-work and pay $5 to take a shot at someone else at least. I don't know if this means that posters' real names are available to everyone, to the moderators, or just to Steve, but it could be set up any of these ways wth no objection from me. bruce
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