Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:14:56 01/17/06
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On January 17, 2006 at 16:09:50, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >On January 17, 2006 at 15:59:29, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On January 17, 2006 at 15:41:27, Robert Hollay wrote: >> >>>On January 17, 2006 at 14:46:39, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>>> >>>>It's a mess that is not easy to stop, other than we could give Tim the full-time >>>>job of blocking them one by one as they are created... >>>> >>>>Bob >>> >>> Would it be a hard task not to allow them posting automatically after creating, >>>only after mods (or one of the mods) have verified them? >>> I mean, there could be some sort of a "status" field, which would allow only >>>read-only access right after creating the account. >> >>People all over the world have different sorts of names. >>The current system relies on people being sensible. >>On the other hand, it is already one strike if you violate the charter by >>signing up under an obvious alias. >>So if they start acting like a whinging twit, all the easier to ban them. >> >>IMO-YMMV. > > >I dont know if you knew, but I was a child prodigy in recognizing artificial >names. Today I'm even more experienced. At least for me it's very easy to say. Will you be able to filter 50 of them every day, 7 days a week for the next 6 months? Will you recognize names from Madagascar, Fiji and Korea successfully? If so, and you felt obliged to perform a policing of that section of the charter, I think you would have a big job on your hands. That's why nobody has bothered to do it. It's just too much effort. Some are obvious and intended to be obnoxious and those are easy. Others are more subtle and difficult. At any rate, I don't think it is a big deal unless the offenders start acting up or unless they have chosen a name that is clearly intended to offend.
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