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Note that mouser has already commented about this in this thread.
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Darwin, given you are a "Biological anthropologist interested in human variability at the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition" how do you read tinjaw's anthropology, especially as one who has mutated a metallic lower mandible? Also, from the structure of the occipital cap and the coronal suture is there a clue as to the time of the metallic mutation? One thing for sure, the subject did see his dentist twice a year!
[/OFF-TOPIC]-CodeTRUCKER (January 05, 2008, 04:26 PM)
. I was motivated to ask the question because I have the "show new replies to your posts" page set as one of my startup tabs. There is one active thread here that I've no interest in following any longer but which I posted in once. I'd like to be able to flag it so that I am no longer alerted to new posts... Yup. Agreed - I'd meant to make that point in my post above - I am not against people listing non-computer/software/technology related interests as this gives me, and others, a better idea of who they are and what makes them tick!-Darwin (January 04, 2008, 05:56 PM)
Given what CWuestefeld brought to the table above, what would you see as a amiable arrangement? He does present a valid point?-CodeTRUCKER (January 04, 2008, 06:10 PM)
I *think* that we could have, say, 5 - 10 medallions and users can pick 5 as you suggested. These could be very broad categories such as "photography", "software", "development", "music", etc. I dunno... now that you've challenged me to come up with a suggestion I can see how difficult this would be, because we'd probably need an enourmous diversity of medallions to accomodate the enormous diversity that exists here at DC. Food for thought.maybe a bit afraid that once "defined", people might start thinking about me as - oh, Tom, he's xyz
). Even from the depths of grumpdom I *know* that the post is off-colour so before I hit "post" I click on a radio button that will invisibliy tag my message as NSFW (or whatever we decide upon - maybe we could have three - "foul language", "inappropriate for minors", "graphic content", whatever) and my post goes up. Anyone who has NOT elected to filter posts using the tags we set up continues to enjoy DC as it's always been. Others who don't want to see foul language have my post filtered out... It relies heavily on each poster monitoring and tagging their own posts. Obviously an issue that will arise is that there will be those who choose not to bother tagging their posts - I think we'll just have to live with that....I think that if app103's HTML tag was tied to tranglos's (click to view) button, with a strong public recommendation that anything not qualifying as "Polite Conversation" be labeled as such ... That the folks here could easily Self Police their way to a reasonable resolution.
Mods could also be allowed to insert the tag for any borderline stuff without having to resort to any feather ruffleing draconian post deletion.-Stoic Joker (January 03, 2008, 11:19 PM)
I'd like to see it implemented on the end-user side - ie if one is happy to keep DC as it has been they need do nothing more than be responsible for tagging their own posts, if necessary, but otherwise will see everything posted on DC. At the other end of the spectrum, those who wish to filter out profanities or vulgarisms may apply the tags as necessary. Seems win-win to me, as long as everyone cooperates. One isse that arises from this is how to tag posts and what to tag (or what content is deserving of a tag). I think we should trial tagging with minimal guidelines (other than "use your common sense" or "would I want my mother to read this?") and see how we get on before getting into maintained word, phrase and topic lists and user-guides....Added bonus is that games start faster and, for some of the nastier protection schemes, run faster as well.-f0dder (January 03, 2008, 06:57 PM)
...I think it is too narrow and robotic to make this a "Censorship -vs- Freedom of Speech" issue. It isn't. It is an issue of courtesy and consideration. It is kindness. It is choosing to care enough about someone else to modify your behavior to allow them to participate.-CodeTRUCKER (January 03, 2008, 06:35 PM)