in reply to Method for Containing ForestFires

Too much admin work I'd say. Who is going to patrol the Monastery and relocate all the flames? Much better we all just refrain from responding to trolls and flamers and use our consideration powers to remove the worst and most offensive nodes.

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A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James

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Re: Method for Containing ForestFires
by luis.roca (Deacon) on Nov 06, 2011 at 18:26 UTC

    I don't think it would be that much more work than past instances with batches of spam posted quickly to the site and how members have responded. As for ignoring bait, unfortunately there will always seem to be at least one person who responds. It can be for all kinds of reasons with good or bad intentions but once that first person does respond the 'ignore' strategy is underminded.


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