Author: Rolf Tueschen
Date: 13:49:20 01/17/06
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On January 17, 2006 at 16:14:56, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. You say it. Some are completely normal and most want to grill a turkey with a lot of smoke. - If I would exactly explain now how that works to discover a fake then it would only make the task more difficult for me or anyone else. Just to make a proposal. We could do it very easily if we have someone in the USA&Canada, in GB and also Germany, it would be piece of cake to verify in case of severe suspicions via phone. Ok, with a few exceptions for the host. But these should never be into flamewars. Personally I think that someone with a normally looking pseudo wouldnt disturb us at all. THe problems come if such a pseudo directly begins to fire heave artillery in a stalking manner. Tommorow in cooperation with another pseudo gecko and with the erroneous belief that then the silent majority of readers could be convinced that the attacked individual is evil. That doesnt function but it makes a lot of noise for the concerned victim. I see that also the mods here have understood that danger. We could certainly avoid to create a lot of costs if we rely on a couple of more experienced because elder type of guys who can do the recognition in case of suspicion in their freetime. I would also assume that a little phonecall could already heal the tensions of many a pseudo who thinks he has an axe to grind most of the time. I think we should reflect that for the best of our community. Just a little add. If suddenly there would only be cases from Korea or Fidschi I propose that then these poor naives must make the telephone calls on their own bill. I think that would reduce that exotic adventure by large margins. :) Your assumption is wrong that every day someone had to examine hundreds of new names. Perhaps we have overall 5 to 10 hardcore fans and they could be detected in some weeks. End of the story. Of course, if our host says "no, exactly the freaks are the salt of the Earth", we had a different problem. But to think that we must recruit Tim full-time from chess and every member must therefore pay 50 dollars a month, that is a bit of an exaggeration IMO.
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