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Re: Lugnet should be MORE draconian
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Date: 
Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:41:45 GMT
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The problem is that we're not dealing with momentary issues where someone
mistypes or whatnot.  Willy went out of his way to use a cuss, and then went out
of his way to obfuscate the Admin's process of dealing with his cuss.

A filter won't deal with the core issue here - which is how to deal with people
who are doing the cussing.

-Lenny

In lugnet.admin.general, Jason S. Mantor wrote:
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 think that'd be good enough.

-JSM

David Koudys wrote:


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
 
OK, maybe we really do need two different discussions to happen, but the two are inextricably intertwined. Filters would catch the slips and that'd be a Good Thing(TM). Admins then have to deal with the bad eggs who intentionally try to beat the (...) (20 years ago, 2-Mar-05, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Lugnet should be MORE draconian
 
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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