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in thread RFC: brig

Well, in terms of overall/long-term harm/benefit to the community, the ranting which people do in the CB is of no consequence.

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Re^3: RFC: brig
by ww (Archbishop) on Jul 16, 2011 at 11:12 UTC
    ...UNLESS the ranting paints the CB (and, by unreasonable but quite human extension, PM itself) as a fiefdom of nutcases; as a place where the unpleasantries lead a visitor to write off the site as 'too testy to bother with.'

    As I said before, I like the idea; I hope we implement it, but -- even more -- hope we carefully consider the pluses and minuses. (And, of course, my {dark} notions of possible downsides may be unrealistic.)

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        Maybe we need more power users

        Hear, hear!

        But I like the brig idea, too. Kind of a hacker honeypot for trolls...

        I was also wondering if it would be possible to display a user's IP address, in a tooltip, for example. This would be ONLY for power users, gods, etc., to help disambiguate duplicate users while protecting privacy.

        HTH,

        planetscape
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