Anonymous Posting DISABLED.
Posted on Tuesday, January 17 at 13:01 by Jesse
Due to continued and widespread abuse, I have disabled posting of comments by anonymous users. There were a great many warnings, but the sheer volume of off-topic, duplicate, insulting, plagiarised, or just plain incoherent posts finally hit the breaking point.
I am still working on the new code for vive, which will hopefully allow me to open things up again when it goes live. But if I spend all of my time deleting duplicate or spam posts, then I have no time to work on the code.
There will be complaints; I'll do my best to address them all. If you have not yet registered, it's fast, free, and secure, and you get free access to the entire site.
Thank you for your understanding, I'll keep you all posted as the new code progresses.
[Edit: moved this from my comment below to here. -jesse ]
A nice side effect is that the server will no longer be quite so hammered, and should save me some money for bandwidth each month. It's as good a time as any to mention that your donations keep me from paying that $30/month(!!) bandwidth bill out of my own pocket, so if you support vive and would like to see it continue to improve, you might consider making a small donation. Thank you. :)
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Good government is not a party government
I just finished my morning moderation, I here it is! I didn't even see it.
It's really too bad that it's come to this. But it was getting abused heavily. Do you see now Don? What's the difference if I know which Anon was posting, or if everyone knew that 'Don Quixote' was posting.
Perhaps we'll still find out.
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"If you must kill a man, it costs you nothing to be polite about it." Winston Churchill
The only thing you have to fear is fear itself.
A nice side effect is that the server will no longer be quite so hammered, and should save me some money for bandwidth each month. It's as good a time as any to mention that your donations keep me from paying that $30/month bandwidth bill out of my own pocket, so if you support vive and would like to see it continue to improve, you might consider making a small donation. Thank you.
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Your mantra has been your opinions are stifled due to their contrary nature, when they are actually stifled for being without perceivable foundation.
I've actually had the thought before that somebody who was deeply opposed to the kind of work that vive could undertake would be well advised to destroy the site before it has an impact. One easy would to destroy would be to spoil it by troll-like subterfuge. My next thought was that if I had had this thought, than without doubt somebody deeply opposed has already had it earlier. Which leads to the next thought that catering to the trolls anger fulfills their duplicitous goals. It's kind of like the brain in a vat theory, only in this case it's a "trolls under contract" scenario. I'm not sure which one is creepier!
I'm glad to see that the moderators have made this step.
Thanks,
G
Ed Deak.
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Your mantra has been your opinions are stifled due to their contrary nature, when they are actually stifled for being without perceivable foundation.
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" There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so ." William Shakespeare
God knows even with registered users picking out trolls is necessary, but at least now this board won't look like a site for bored highschool pranksters to write oscenities in.
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Ignoring trolls is the best way says ouhite.
You haven't closed off the site to anyone. Everyone is free to read. Those who want to do more than that can join and do so.
It's simply a matter of deciding whether 'anon' provides more benefit to the site than detriment.
As I've said before, it would be one thing if Vive was simply a discussion forum with no purpose other than allowing folks to visit and blow off steam.
However, it isn't and allowing the site to be filled with swearing, name-calling and other nonsense, whether from 'anon' or members, isn't going to encourage visitors to take the site or its purpose seriously.
There are plenty of web venues available for people who enjoy an atmoshere filled with venomous diatribes and obnoxious behaviour. Vive doesn't need to be one of them, for either 'anon' or members.
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"When we are in the middle of the paradigm, it is hard to imagine any other paradigm" (Adam Smith).
Bravo
arthur! arthur!
ok then if you insist
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"There is no reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia."
Kurt Vonnegut