On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Mark Smith wrote: > > This really sucks and abusive V-gifts are more common than many > > people think. > > When we actually have V-gifts, we can look at the appropriate changes > to the system to make it useful for DW. > > There's a careful line here, though. We want to keep the site open > enough to encourage community and people interacting - even if it > might mean that every once in a while there's a bad interaction.
*snip* > In this case, I agree with you, and think that implementing "who can > send me a v-gift" as an option would be just fine. But in the general > case, let's not be so quick to jump on board with "I should never, > ever be offended." I don't think I should never be offended either. Abuse and offence aren't the same; I may be offended by someone's insistence on posting things that I can't stand in their own journal, but that's not their problem or yours, I just need to stop reading it. Someone putting stuff in MY journal that is offensive, especially after I've gone to the trouble of banning them and they're evading that ban, though, is a misuse of the system which makes it my business and yours, if you own the system. I'm pointing out that LJ has a lot of features that have deliberately or not been purposely left open to abusive use (while making some other very strange decisions; the friending limit doesn't do much to discourage serial adding, but inconveniences large RPGs, for example). In general, I think that when we invent new ways for people to communicate on the site, making it possible for people to control whether trusted, registered or anonymous users can use them to reach them is generally a good idea. That seems to me to be something that should be a default, the "if you can block something, you should be able to block it based on who you trust" idea. I understand that it's always an arms race and that crackers will always find malicious ways to use things that no-one who isn't as warped as they are (or hasn't interacted with them long enough to know how they think) could predict. I don't hold you responsible for predicting all troll tactics. But I do think you might want to know about existing ones in the code we already have? And right now, since anonymous v-gifts can't be blocked, it's one way a ban evader can always reach a user. **************************************************************** Azalais Aranxta (~malfoy) ataniell93 on LiveJournal and Vox http://groups.yahoo.com/group/malfoymadness "I know the true world, and you know I do. But we needn't let it think we all bow down." --Christopher Fry _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
