True, but the same principles apply to people surfing at work or college.
Joel Send a noteboard - 23/11/2010 09:16:30 PM
Mainly I'm just very leery of anything that even slightly complicates adding new members. If you recall the "taking five minutes to dl and install a small piece of software and then register a SN is too HARD111 *stamps foot*" discussions you should understand why.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think RAFO can endure as a primarily wotmaniac site. Ignoring those who've left and will never return, there's too much bad blood and bitterness still, and too many people with too many real world responsibilities to spend the time online they did when they were pillars of the community. The ranks of the latter will grow, and unless there's a substantial influx of people who never knew about wotmania the site will stagnate and die: Those pillars are needed lest the whole thing collapse. Consequently, ANYTHING that prejudices that influx even slightly requires a great deal of justification to seem wise to me.
Yet, once again, I have neither the qualifications, the access nor the desire to make those kinds of decisions, and I've stated my position quite clearly, at great length, so, as noted in my Journal Entry, continuing to do feels ungrateful, disloyal and even hypocritical. The issue is settled, whether I like it or not. Anyway, I LIKE being a user free of any responsibilities save to a Code of Conduct I can't even be ACCUSED of violating since it's unstated (which will make the first siteban hard to explain... ).
Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think RAFO can endure as a primarily wotmaniac site. Ignoring those who've left and will never return, there's too much bad blood and bitterness still, and too many people with too many real world responsibilities to spend the time online they did when they were pillars of the community. The ranks of the latter will grow, and unless there's a substantial influx of people who never knew about wotmania the site will stagnate and die: Those pillars are needed lest the whole thing collapse. Consequently, ANYTHING that prejudices that influx even slightly requires a great deal of justification to seem wise to me. Yet, once again, I have neither the qualifications, the access nor the desire to make those kinds of decisions, and I've stated my position quite clearly, at great length, so, as noted in my Journal Entry, continuing to do feels ungrateful, disloyal and even hypocritical. The issue is settled, whether I like it or not. Anyway, I LIKE being a user free of any responsibilities save to a Code of Conduct I can't even be ACCUSED of violating since it's unstated (which will make the first siteban hard to explain... ).
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Last First in wotmania Chat
Slightly better than chocolate.
Love still can't be coerced.
Please Don't Eat the Newbies!
LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
Last First in wotmania Chat
Slightly better than chocolate.
Love still can't be coerced.
Please Don't Eat the Newbies!

LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
Can we swear at RAFO?
- 22/11/2010 04:57:59 AM
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Fuck no. Are you shitting me? There's no damn chance we can swear.
- 22/11/2010 05:01:48 AM
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You DARE presume to assault my delicate ears with your nasty coarse sailor talk???
- 22/11/2010 05:05:23 AM
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I can't think of underage users
- 22/11/2010 11:32:40 AM
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Well
- 22/11/2010 11:47:13 AM
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That's a good point of course
- 22/11/2010 11:58:37 AM
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Obviously we don't know what we don't know.</Rumsfeld>
- 22/11/2010 12:33:53 PM
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Apparently it's not high on Ben's priority list, so we seem to be fine for now. *NM*
- 22/11/2010 12:38:42 PM
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The difference is webbrowsers can't be set to automatically exlude the former from web searches.
- 22/11/2010 12:01:05 PM
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How many posts have there been with swear words in titles?
- 22/11/2010 12:45:49 PM
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Are you telling me monitors are THAT horribly inefficient?
- 22/11/2010 02:55:43 PM
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Scanning a CoC requires a human (or significantly improved parsing), whereas spidering can be dumb
- 22/11/2010 03:06:19 PM
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I figured,but checking for filter subroutines seems like it would be pretty easy.
- 22/11/2010 04:18:01 PM
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Subroutines such as what?
- 22/11/2010 04:33:05 PM
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Well, honestly, I don't know, but I expect language filter subroutines are pretty standardized now.
- 22/11/2010 08:01:07 PM
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The point is that there is nothing that a browser* will see of such a filter unless...
- 23/11/2010 08:56:37 AM
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OK, but even then preventing such posts covers the contingencies while censoring none.
- 23/11/2010 01:49:15 PM
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well...
- 23/11/2010 04:14:51 PM
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Re: well...
- 23/11/2010 05:26:14 PM
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Re: well...
- 23/11/2010 06:42:43 PM
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Yes, a lot of people don't seem to want RAFO "invaded" by new people.
- 23/11/2010 07:03:14 PM
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new people is not the same as children.
*NM*
- 23/11/2010 08:30:43 PM
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*NM*
- 23/11/2010 08:30:43 PM
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True, but the same principles apply to people surfing at work or college.
- 23/11/2010 09:16:30 PM
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Please.
- 23/11/2010 09:40:16 PM
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Of course they do; who do you think creates all those time sink--er, games?
- 23/11/2010 11:46:09 PM
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- 23/11/2010 11:46:09 PM
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I resent that.
- 23/11/2010 10:09:36 PM
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- 23/11/2010 10:09:36 PM
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Yeah, I may have skipped a few important people, too; sorry.
- 23/11/2010 11:44:12 PM
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- 23/11/2010 11:44:12 PM
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the whole community was younger then. It really doesn't apply to today.
- 24/11/2010 07:50:56 AM
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Unless you mean the whole internet community, it's far more applicable, but to different individuals
- 24/11/2010 02:26:01 PM
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188 f-bombs dropped in titles, $hit's used 142 times in titles
- 22/11/2010 05:01:02 PM
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Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
- 22/11/2010 06:27:59 PM
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Yea, you're helping exclude dozens, if not hundreds of potential RAFOlk.
- 22/11/2010 07:42:58 PM
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- 22/11/2010 07:42:58 PM
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Watch out. The CIA is watching you post that. And then they're going to arrest EVERYONE.
- 22/11/2010 08:09:07 PM
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I used the search function, it was just the number of post that had those in their title
- 22/11/2010 07:45:18 PM
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*waves* Hi! *NM*
- 22/11/2010 10:17:52 PM
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Hey there!
- 22/11/2010 10:30:24 PM
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A great deal of us were underage, though.
- 23/11/2010 01:11:58 AM
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And look what a dirty mouth you got even without our help
*NM*
- 23/11/2010 08:04:06 AM
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*NM*
- 23/11/2010 08:04:06 AM
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All I can say to that is that people who think cursing on RAFO/WoTmania corrupts the youth
- 23/11/2010 10:13:26 PM
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Who cares about the cursing. In other ways wotmania did probably corrupt me, though.
- 23/11/2010 10:25:37 PM
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- 23/11/2010 10:25:37 PM
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Back off!
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