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Re: I feel I am building a new Google Wave

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Post by mansoor-s » Tue, Sep 11, 2012, 5:57 PM UTC

orangethirty wrote: post #82

mansoor-s wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a web-dev I see these kinds of comments a lot. There is a simple solution: Step 1) Upgrade your browser. Step 2) Enable JavaScript. You can't strip down your browsers functionality and expect the web to conform to it. Thats like saying this website won't load on my potato! EVIL EVIL potato haters!

As an engineer focusing on web software I also see these comments a lot. I also know how it drives people (buying customers) away from websites. Yet it is rather surprising how people like you make such comments. "Upgrade your software, you fool!" seems to be the norm. But, how much does it cost to add a few lines of code like the following: Please enable javascript. If you have any questions how to do so, please cli…

I'm sorry. I couldn't read your comment. My hammer and chisel can't render that text properly. Not everyone has a computer you know! Please provide proper support.

Re: I feel I am building a new Google Wave

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Post by cheshirecat » Wed, Sep 12, 2012, 1:56 AM UTC

prawn wrote: post #94

Hi cheshirecat, Any tactics for blocking repeat trouble makers? You mentioned blocking by IP in your docs. I've run a forum (1,100 posts/month) for about eight years which also allows anonymous posting as well as accounts/avatars/etc. Users blocked by IP usually reconnect with their ISP to get a new IP and run amok anew. I also have blacklisted words and phrases which can stop some problems, but not all. I end up blo…

Probably the best method is to give more power to your users and let them be MODs - probably vote-to-exile? Yes, it could be abused just like the case of Socrates.

But it's definitely better than blocking IP class which hurts innocent users and useless against trolls under proxy.

Re: I feel I am building a new Google Wave

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Post by prawn » Wed, Sep 12, 2012, 4:28 AM UTC

cheshirecat wrote: post #102

prawn wrote: post #94

Hi cheshirecat, Any tactics for blocking repeat trouble makers? You mentioned blocking by IP in your docs. I've run a forum (1,100 posts/month) for about eight years which also allows anonymous posting as well as accounts/avatars/etc. Users blocked by IP usually reconnect with their ISP to get a new IP and run amok anew. I also have blacklisted words and phrases which can stop some problems, but not all. I end up blo…

Probably the best method is to give more power to your users and let them be MODs - probably vote-to-exile? Yes, it could be abused just like the case of Socrates. But it's definitely better than blocking IP class which hurts innocent users and useless against trolls under proxy.

I currently have two classes of moderator - one with edit/delete access, and a lower one with the power to hide a post in a "Sin Bin" until a higher-level moderator can judge it.

But with anonymous accounts, I need to provide greater incentive for people to sign in - karma, etc.

Thanks for the reply.