Other thing is, there's a really high probability the the folks most likely to misuse the filter are t he least likely to ever read the faq. The faq seems a bit like preaching to the choir sometimes.
Early: You folks are all insane. Simon: Well, my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood.
'Objects In Space'
Bureaucracy 3: Oh, so now you want to be part of the SOLUTION?
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
NoiseDesign - May 09, 2004 11:12:24 am PDT #580 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
Burrell - May 09, 2004 11:58:42 am PDT #581 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I'm against making anything an officially warnable offense, even "I'm filtering you! Nyah!" For all of the reasons already specified. Basically, I feel we can't really exert control over how the filter will be used. Someone at some point will say it. We knew that when we decided to go ahead and create it.
I really would like to see less policing of language and behavior in general, not more.
NoiseDesign - May 09, 2004 12:06:56 pm PDT #582 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
What Burrell said.
I really don't like micromanagement, and lately it's been feeling like we're heading that way.
Typo Boy - May 09, 2004 12:15:24 pm PDT #583 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
The longer the FAQ gets, the more I think we should have gone with the two rules Victor suggeted:
1) Don't be an asshole.
2) We decide what's being an asshole.
Jessica - May 09, 2004 1:58:23 pm PDT #584 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
If we're going to have any official mention of the first three rules of user filter club, I think it should be in the How To document, since part of how to use the user filter is how to use it politely.
And I agree that all it needs to say is "talking about who you're filtering or who you think is filtering you is rude, so don't do it." There's no need to mention possible official Stompy action.
Frankenbuddha - May 09, 2004 3:42:14 pm PDT #585 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
And I agree that all it needs to say is "talking about who you're filtering or who you think is filtering you is rude, so don't do it." There's no need to mention possible official Stompy action.
I like the lack of official, but still out there implication of this. My biggest worry with some official quantifier is that you're going to start seeing all kinds of cute euphamisms for filtering (e.g. "Ok, that's it, I'm off to Fight Club" to use the most recent one, which I do find slightly less...clique-ish a term, I guess than Marcie) in thread.
§ ita § - May 09, 2004 4:01:21 pm PDT #586 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If someone does this, and it's rude, our normal procedure still works.
I suppose it's possible that people will do it, insisting it's not rude, but that's why we have been loose in the discuss-warn-ban scenario.
billytea - May 09, 2004 4:34:22 pm PDT #587 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
"Ok, that's it, I'm off to Fight Club" to use the most recent one, which I do find slightly less...clique-ish a term, I guess than Marcie.
If that was from me, it was Flight Club. Kind of the opposite of Fight Club.
Polter-Cow - May 09, 2004 5:28:54 pm PDT #588 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
If that was from me, it was Flight Club. Kind of the opposite of Fight Club.
Ooooh. I get it now. That's pretty clever.
Nilly - May 09, 2004 9:57:28 pm PDT #589 of 10001
Swouncing
If someone does this, and it's rude, our normal procedure still works.
That's what I've been trying to say but got entangled in my words.