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What kind of tagging system would be appropriate for DC?

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Darwin:
However, that doesn't mean people shouldn't be more understanding of the concern.. it doesn't cost anything to try to be understanding.
-mouser (January 13, 2008, 04:51 PM)
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Yes - agreed! You've managed to summarize part of what I was trying to say in a couple of sentences!

Note though, that while I am sure that CodeTrucker is in the minority, I doubt very much that he is a minority of one...

nosh:
Any other place and the attacks would have come fast and furious and have been way uglier than anything we've seen here. The reason these threads lasted so long and most responses were modulated is all thanks to the general tone set by mouser and the rest of you senior DC members. I hope he realised that.

Edit: I'm really intrigued by all this gri talk - am off to look at some of the originals.  ;D

Lashiec:
As I stated before, the problem is not tagging posts. I don't have a problem in tagging posts like the one about the PornTube or the few about sexual toys we had here with a "non appropriate" tag (I agree with app that until something graphical is shown, it's not considered NSFW).

The problem lies in what I can consider "non appropriate" and what CodeTRUCKER thinks it's "non appropriate". The use of words like the ones he used in the stats means that it's a problem it can't simply be solved using a simple tagging system like the one Veign brought to our attention, but using a filtering system, something quite more complicated, and that either requires us to scan and tag our messages before posting, or to design a system based on words which would be censor those ones deemed as not appropriate (OK, CodeTRUCKER, you wrote about the system you envisioned all those days, and now you have edited out everything...).

If we used a tag system like originally proposed, besides requiring us to tag practically half of our posts as inappropriate, something not desirable, it would mean that CodeTRUCKER would had to ignore practically the whole forum, a situation that, IMO, it's the closest thing to leaving the forum (while are you going to participate in a conversation in which you're missing half of what people is saying?). The other system is more appropriate, that's for sure, but implementing it requires quite some effort, it's nothing that it could be done in one day, and it could not do a double task like the tagging system. I think tinjaw's proposal fit this bill, but I don't know if someone would be up to the task of integrating within the forum.

Bah, after the recent events, I don't even know if it would be of some use.

Eóin:
I feel I really need to make a final comment here because since codeTRUCKER has now edited out all his posts that those of us who replied to him are now left having to choose do we a) edit out our own posts though that would only serve to suggest we have something we are ashamed of and want to hide or b) we leave our replies here where the original context in which they were made has been removed leaving them very much open to misinterpretation.

I'm going to leave my replies intact but I am going to add this explanation of what I was replying too. It has already been brought up that codeTRUCKER seemed to view himself as being morally superior to the rest of us. Of course that was very hypocritical as he was clearly the least tolerant of us all.

More importantly though I detected a very real undercurrent in codeTRUCKER's posts that we were not just just simply being bit careless for not watching our language but that we were purposely crude, foul mouthed people who should be gagged lest we corrupt the innocent or something.

I don't know if others here read it that way too but I for one took that as an insult and so I responded in kind. In fact that's not entirely true, actually I was very restrained.

mouser:
I'm very dissapointed in what codetrucker has done by way of deleteing all the content from this posts.  we will try to address this later so this kind of thing doesn't happen again, since it renders an entire history of conversation unintelligible.

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