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Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!

We open it up, we talks the talk, we votes, we shuts it down. This thread is to free up Bureaucracy for daily details as we hammer out the Big Issues towards a vote. Open only when a proposal has been made and seconded according to Buffista policy (Which we voted on!). If this thread is closed, hie thee to Bureaucracy instead!

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Lyra Jane - Apr 15, 2005 8:59:16 am PDT #5620 of 10289

Up with the sun

Personally, I think this issue can be solved by people exercising their right to use the block feature.

Would you please show me how to preemptively block every sockpuppet anyone will think of and all posts made in conversations involving them, without blocking anything else? Because my block function won't do that.

But that's a "this annoys me" issue, and I agree that we shouldn't vote to ban things entirely because they annoy people. My more serious concern, the possibility of trolling through a sockpuppet, is addressed by requesting/requiring that secondary logins have a note in the profile saying who's doing the typing. So that's what I would vote for, if it is on the ballot.

Connie Neil - Apr 15, 2005 9:01:38 am PDT #5621 of 10289

brillig

But is anyone against asking multiple-IDed users to put their "real" ID in their profile?

Not that I've seen.

JohnSweden - Apr 15, 2005 9:01:56 am PDT #5622 of 10289

I can't even.

My more serious concern, the possibility of trolling through a sockpuppet, is addressed by requesting/requiring that secondary logins have a note in the profile saying who's doing the typing. So that's what I would vote for, if it is on the ballot.

What year did the only known example of this activity take place?

shrift - Apr 15, 2005 9:03:41 am PDT #5623 of 10289

"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Who was it (amych? Plei?) who said something like Buffistas are constitutionally unable to take the piss.

It probably was me:

shrift: It is a truth universally acknowledged that Buffistas are incapable of taking the piss.

Lyra Jane - Apr 15, 2005 9:04:25 am PDT #5624 of 10289

Up with the sun

What year did the only known example of this activity take place?

That's beside the point, John -- it could happen again at any date.

Are you saying you have a serious objection to asking that secondary logins identify themselves in the profile?

msbelle - Apr 15, 2005 9:04:39 am PDT #5625 of 10289

I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

Lyra Jane - you couldn't pre-emptively block a sockpuppet anymore than you can pre-emptively block a new poster who you will find annoying. I never meant to suggest that. I just meant that as soon as it seems clear to you that they are a sockpuppet or as soon as they annoy you then you can block them and no longer deal with the annoyance.

Topic!Cindy - Apr 15, 2005 9:05:16 am PDT #5626 of 10289

What is even happening?

But is anyone against asking multiple-IDed users to put their "real" ID in their profile?

I'm not against it, but I'm against codifying it, and I can't explain why. I'm not terribly against codifying it, mind you. It just feels funny. We're regulating what precautions people have to take, before they make a joke. That squicks me.

Aims - Apr 15, 2005 9:08:09 am PDT #5627 of 10289

Shit's all sorts of different now.

We're regulating what precautions people have to take, before they make a joke.

This.

Topic!Cindy - Apr 15, 2005 9:08:14 am PDT #5628 of 10289

What is even happening?

shrift: It is a truth universally acknowledged that Buffistas are incapable of taking the piss.

That's the one! I adore that.

Aims - Apr 15, 2005 9:09:51 am PDT #5629 of 10289

Shit's all sorts of different now.

Cindy, can you Nilly your rewrite of the proposal?

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