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Re: Lugnet should be MORE draconian
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 1 Mar 2005 23:58:55 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, David Koudys wrote:
> -snip-
> > It needs fixing. I suggest that codeing'll do it, either as the person posts,
> > or as people display. It's been done before in other areas and I think it'll
> > work here.
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> Hey Dave,
> Thanks for the thoughtful responce. The effort has been to fully enforce
> incidents of cursing, regardless. I've suggested a few times in enlisting more
> people as 'Mods' for whom their sole purpose is seeking out ToU violations and
> bringing them to Admin's attention.
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> The thing about a word filter is that it won't necessarily catch all incidents
> of a curse word, in which case we are back to square one again: how do the
> Admins deal with posts that break the ToU? Direct post editting by Admins,
> without user consent, is the easiest solution.
>
> -Len
If the code puts ###@%% in for a list of words, then any word that 'slips thru'
would be manually edited such that the word is now #@%#@#.
The code'll catch the 95 percent, thus freeing up admins time for the other 5.
Dave K
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 | | Re: Lugnet should be MORE draconian
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| Yes. nicely put. admittedly a filter can be good but not perfect. Even if it only catches 50%, it's helped out and that would only leave the extreme cases for the admins to deal with. The occasional slip would be taken care of most of the time. I (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Lugnet should be MORE draconian
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| In lugnet.admin.general, David Koudys wrote: -snip- (...) Hey Dave, Thanks for the thoughtful responce. The effort has been to fully enforce incidents of cursing, regardless. I've suggested a few times in enlisting more people as 'Mods' for whom (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.admin.general)
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