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Re: New feature: Article rating
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Date: 
Sun, 26 Mar 2000 17:58:58 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Mike Stanley writes:
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 17:10:17 GMT, "Lorbaat" <eric@nospam.thirteen.net>
wrote:

LUGNET is a user-based community.  Right now it is a user-based
community with an anti-user password system.

A password system that, I remind you, controls your access to *two* things-
neither one of which even approaches being essential to normal use.

Throwing around words like that really waters down your argument.

Insomuchas Larry and I are promoting the _right_ side of this issue,
there really isn't much of an argument.

I think that Todd's reasoning, posted elsewhere in this thread, is
well-thought-out.  Trying to deny there's another side to the issue doesn't do
much to refute it.

You want to carry your
password around on a card?

No, and I don't.

You want to log yourself in
permanently at a machine that anyone can use?

No, and I don't.

I don't,
and I shouldn't be made to do so.

Does someone have a gun to your head?  You'll just have to accept that from
certain machines, for now, you can't access all the features.  That's a choice
you're making.  It's also a choice that I'm making.  It's really no big deal.
I promise.

So while I might joke about Larry and I being important enough to
suggest that _our_ opinion on this issue is the _right_ one (we are
and it is)

Uh-huh.  Pardon me if I fail to crumble before your almighty wisdom.

Well, you're the only one who has stepped into the personal attack
realm

Huh?

(referring to Larry's cookie problem as user error

.... is not a "personal attack".  It simply insinuates that his browser wasn't
designed to lose cookies (is there some browser that is that I don't know
about?) and that fixing his browser falls into his (ie, the Lugnet user's)
territory, and Lugnet didn't need to be designed around that.

and now
this).

So, you're allowed to make tongue in cheek comments about your perfect wisdom,
and I'm not?

If I were concerned about YOUR opinion, I'd worry about it.
But you're wrong, so I'm not.

Yes.  You are right because you say you are, so you must be.

As I said, that kind of recursive logic really doesn't win any points in
debate.  If this really is the best you can do, I'm done discussing it.

eric



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  Re: New feature: Article rating
 
(...) Well, there you go. I didn't even know there was something else that required you to sign in to access it. So that is two features right now that I cannot access (as a paid member) unless I choose to compromise the same security these silly (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) ! 

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  Re: New feature: Article rating
 
(...) Can you name a major website with the sort of long-term goals that LUGNET has that sides with your "setting your own password isn't important" opinion? (...) Well, did you read the rest of that paragraph? eCircles isn't a retailer - it is a (...) (24 years ago, 26-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general) ! 

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