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In lugnet.admin.general, Anders Isaksson writes:
> Yeah, and don't forget other languages! What's perfectly clean in English,
> may be an insult in another language (no examples will be given), and vice
> versa.
That's another reason to restrict the member-ID's only to representations
of real-life names...that way, if something happens to be obscene in another
language, it's obvious that it was based directly on someone's name, and not
obscene on purpose (or at least obscene with plausible deniability for the
person). So if there's someone out there named, say, Don Griffith, and he
chose 'dong', then so be it. That's pretty mild, but it would have to be
the same for anything actually truly filthy, because I don't want to get
into censorship issues. Forcing the ID's to be name-based keeps it
objective and, to a large degree, mechanizable.
> As a side note (I think I have mentioned it before?), the name LUGNET has
> many obvious meanings in Swedish:
>
> 1 - 'The calm' (IOW lugnet is 'tranquility base')
> 2 - A famous Swedish arena for winter sports, mainly ski jumping.
Yup! :) We researched this long ago before going public with the name,
just to make sure it didn't mean something bad. We checked with Tore and
a couple other people in Sweden, and looked around with AltaVista.
> 3 - An industrial area in Stockholm, which burned down yesterday
ooh, bad juju.
--Todd
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