On Tue, 19 Oct 2010, Curtis Olson wrote: > Oh dear ... > > http://www.noswearing.com/dictionary > > I was going to say that we could probably do a pretty good job at coming up > with a list ourselves, then I saw this site and realized I'm a complete > novice ... > A filter like this belongs in the client machine, not the server.
It's not the job of a multi-player server to provide nanny services. If the end user doesn't want to see adult language, they're welcome to enable whatever filtering that could be built into the client. In fact, this could be enabled by default - that way paruhnts of pweshush snowflakes don't come screaming at you about having to gouge out their eyes over four letter words (spelling of "parents" is intentional). Any kind of multi-player universe is going to have "griefers". There's no reasonable way around it. There are ways to mitigate it though. The most effective methods require people in the loop unfortunately. Authenticated logins will help - as well as a rating system that other users can use to filter bad-actors. The ratings would have to be provided by other players. Say they'd start out as a 10 and every n complaints, they'd get docked a point. Troublesome users would eventually lower their rating to a point where most players wouldn't see them. Think of how the Slashdot moderation system work - you can read the comments at a specific "level".... The same could be done with MP traffic on the client. g. -- Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007 http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind. http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes. http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download new Adobe(R) Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 The new Adobe(R) Flex(R) 4 and Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 (formerly Flex(R) Builder(TM)) enable the development of rich applications that run across multiple browsers and platforms. Download your free trials today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
