As a guy who gets insulted about every second day while trying to enforce proper ATC onto everybody approaching EDDF I surely would support a system which could solve that problem - if I just had the slightest idea how to overcome the following questions:
# How can we avoid that somebody (who believes he is the good guy) reacts in a manner, that just escalates the problem - maybe he even tries to shoot the opponent down? What is worse: The first "words of kids stuff" or an escalating response? # I am no lawyer, so: Could you really win in court if somebody insults you - and you responded or even escalated -- although you could stop that whole attack just by a little mouse-click into the PilotList? # I hope we agree at least, that MP should always act worldwide - and nobody is forbidden to type or talk in any language - what dictionary or so could you use to define how big the problem is we all have? # How do you handle spoken attacks via FGCOM? Translate via Festival and then make a literal compare? # If you implement a grading system: How can you avoid that "some bad guys" group together and downgrade "good guys" - maybe just for fun? I am pretty sure ATCs could be a good target for such combined minus ratings. What happens if somebody gets downgraded and finally be locked out? Can he go to court and say "I did not!"? # To my knowledge it is just about impossible today to define a person by IP: Multi-usage by many people, DNS changing IP NR every day, WLANS, etc. Even the police do have big problems to define a person by IP -- they need special court-orders for checking the providers-list (at least in Europe!). # Would you even be allowed to keep a rating system on your serves that keeps track of "personal behavior"? If so in US - also worldwide?? And if so: Who is allowed to look into that?? So quite frankly, i do not see any possibility to do something like this without a very huge overload of administration (and constant costs - and undefined legal problems - worldwide!). So really I do only see one solution: Lets all try to be paragons -- and reduce the problem! I do not see any solution to prevent it completely! Not even if we had unlimited resources available! I am really glade I do not have to decide on that. joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
