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Re: Censorship (was Re: Bye, bye LUGNET)
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
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Tue, 1 Mar 2005 22:26:25 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Kelly McKiernan wrote:
> Forgot to answer this portion in previous post...
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> In lugnet.general, Orion Pobursky wrote:
> > The thing is that some long standing Lugnet members are getting very upset about
> > getting threatening email regarding what may have been a comment in passing.
> > This fact alone should tell you that something might be wrong with the way
> > things are done.
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> I think we'd all agree the current process is inherently inefficient and
> completely human-driven, and appears somewhat arbitrary. Nobody is arguing that
> something far better needs to be implemented. Before we do that, we need to
> define what SHOULD be done.
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> If we were to slap a filter in place, that's still "censorship" in people's eyes
> and that's the core problem some people seem to have. But if we allow uncensored
> language, it creates an atmosphere that's different from what (I believe) is
> ultimately wanted here at LUGNET - and I'm sure we'd quietly lose many other
> people who just don't want to be around it.
>
> Having had extensive experience with word filters at BZPower, even with the
> lengths some people will go to to get around them, I do think that some sort of
> replacement filter (at least for the web view) is a good idea. Obviously that
> will still spark outrage among people who are dead set against having their
> pearls of wisdom altered in any way, but it would level the playing field and
> would be quantifiable and even-handed.
I agree that a language filter is a valid approch to this issue as long as the
original, unfiltered post is available and, much like the skip filter now, the
language filter is a user settable option (i.e. on by default but off if the
user wants). I think this approach is probably about as close as you can get to
satisfying both sides.
-Orion
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