Re: [Fgs-bs] F*ETURE request

[Desired Username]

--- tps12 <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Desired Username wrote:
> > 1) I think the registering many accounts problem
> can
> > be solved by requiring a minimum amount of games
> > played in order to gojofy.  Not games won, just
> games
> > played (to completion, resignations don't count
> > towards this).
> 
> This would mean that new members could be jerks if
> they made sure to only
> offend other new members. 

Actually, anybody could offend n00bs.  As long as no
older players were watching out for them.   Will have
to think about this.

Not that it wouldn't work,
> but again it suggests
> a flaw in gojo.
> 
> > 2) When you gojohit someone, you can still see
> them
> > talking, they (and you) are just incrementally
> more
> > likely to be banned.  If you are being stalked,
> that's
> > not enough.  You want to be able to censor if you
> > don't have the emotional strength to simply
> ignore.
> > Or if you just don't like someone but don't want
> them
> > banned from a room or game.
> 
> Right, the idea being that if the community as a
> whole doesn't have a
> problem with the stalker, then the stalkee is just
> being whiny.

But....

Let me come at this another way.

When I censor someone, what I'm doing is saying "I
don't care about the rest of you, but I want to ignore
this person."  It's a personal decision (a personal
FREEDOM, you might say).  

When I hit their gojo, I'm saying something different.
 Now I'm saying "I don't want this person in this
room."  In a way, it isn't about me at all.   I'm
making a (small piece of a) community-level decision. 


I think the first, censoring, is a less drastic
action.  For one thing, it doesn't affect the censored
person at all.  IMO, people should try (individually)
censoring before voting to ban.  And a stalkee should
always have the option of censoring someone they think
is bothering them.

I just realized that maybe this is a semantic error. 
When I say "censor", I mean "/ignore".

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