Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:17:30 +1200
Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I also found the SFD site offensive. The fact that the project
stakeholders don't care enough to respond to offers of help makes a
complete mockery of the project.
The only bit that's in the slightest bit offensive are the forums, which are at
a separate url, owned by a different company based in another country, who's
native language certainly isn't English ( or German, surprisingly ).
I didn't notice it was on a seperate url owned by someone else.
My understanding of the SFD purpose was to promote FOSS to the global
community.
If the site isn't going to make it thur filters in most of your target
market then it's pointless.
When I was moderating www.whirlpool.net.au we went to legnths to ensure
content like this was removed within minutes because it blocks you from
users.
Personally I am not offened by the content, I said I found it offensive.
In other words, I agree that other members of the community would take
offense. As such I see little point in spending my time on it.
I'm only bothering to respond to your message Steve out of respect to
you and your views and in the hope that anyone else planning an event or
web site that they want to use to influence the community with might
take note.
To put it in perspective, I have personally removed 12 offensive emails from my
forum today. You're fighting robots, because they're using phpbb, which is
popular enough for spammers to write the tools to hack into them. It grates on
me, and I'm paid to do it. Try doing it for free for a few years.
See: www.whirlpool.net.au This is a site designed from scratch. It
has systems in it that block spammers every effectively. You couldn't
automate a system to spam those lists the way you can with bbphp.
I was a free moderator for that site for a while. We had no issue with
spam because Simon Wright wrote code to deal with it before it ever
became an issue.
www.bvc.com.au isn't online anymore, but that was an example of a web
site forum system I wrote from scratch which had an even better system
for blocking inappropriate content. I have yet to see anything like it.
Problem is all the code is asp/sqlserver6.5 so it's not much use to
anyone.
End of the day Steve, stake holders in the project didn't consider the
issue important enough to respond to the community almost a month ago.
Clearly they don't care... As I said before, that's ok. :)
Cheers Don
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