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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, "Greg Majewski" <citrusx__@yahoo.com> writes:
> > How about people just use whatever they have been called in the past? As for
> > new members and garbage names, you could have a submit area that sends chosen
> > names to a special LUGNET email, where they then could be manually read, and
> > the garbage names could be denied memberships until they change their name to
> > an acceptable one. A little redundant, I know, but I am just throwing in my two
> > cents..
>
> That was a thought, but think about it from the censorship standpoint:
>
> On the legal side, when you start trying to filter out things that are
> offensive or vulgar or profane, you open yourself up to more scrutiny if you
> then accidentally miss something and it passes through and someone really
> freaks out. And I believe you're at risk even if you don't advertise that
> you're censoring (or keeping things 'clean'). That's an important concern.
>
> On the social side, and this is probably the bigger concern, there are all
> sorts of possible usernames that walk the gray area between what would pass
> and what would fail. Certainly there are things that would obviously fail
> that weren't offensive, and things that would obviously pass that weren't
> offensive, but things aren't always black and white. When you draw the line
> (and it might even drift over time) and consider all of the gray-area cases,
> some people are bound to get very upset if their username isn't passed,
> especially if someone with a very similar name was passed and they were
> failed (it might have been on purpose for very subtle reasons or it might
> simply have been accidental, who knows). The gray area cases are 100%
> subjective (kind of by definition of their being gray), and this would bring
> things into a very uncomfortable territory.
>
> --Todd
If you look at this situation from how it exists already, you will find that
99% of the internet's Lego community are civilized adults, the rest being
civilized teenagers or whatever, so you don't really have to worry about "gray
areas," at least not how I look at it. Sure, some people out there may be loud
and annoying, but they aren't offensive or vulgar.
Greg
citrusx__@yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dome/1888/
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