Hobbling Users - what could possibly go wrong...
I wanted to put a poll up, but the one poll limit is also a bad idea because someone can just keep piling on *promotes.
I'm sorry the admins don't realize what a bad idea *hobbling is. What could possibly go wrong with the ultimate abusable power. While I think hobbling is a very good idea and auto-hobble on Siftquistion is a good idea, it should not be something for users to decide.
Why not just *hobble people automatically on some secret criteria of abuses, like 10 dead in a row, or killing someone's queue, or downvoting one members videos. If Lucky tells me it is too CPU intensive on a cron job to examine the last 100 comments and flag on certain criteria.. then fine. But it should be done automagically and then if it was an accident the person can contact to have it listed. Worst case is a few false positives that limit someone for awhile.
I really am sad if you look at recent behaviors and abuses and then allow for all of gang wars.
I'm sorry the admins don't realize what a bad idea *hobbling is. What could possibly go wrong with the ultimate abusable power. While I think hobbling is a very good idea and auto-hobble on Siftquistion is a good idea, it should not be something for users to decide.
Why not just *hobble people automatically on some secret criteria of abuses, like 10 dead in a row, or killing someone's queue, or downvoting one members videos. If Lucky tells me it is too CPU intensive on a cron job to examine the last 100 comments and flag on certain criteria.. then fine. But it should be done automagically and then if it was an accident the person can contact to have it listed. Worst case is a few false positives that limit someone for awhile.
I really am sad if you look at recent behaviors and abuses and then allow for all of gang wars.
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joedirt*hobble
joedirtSomeone please hobble me so I can live with a handcuff icon, seriously.
Either that or I should really submit my own Siftquistion before I go ballistic.
blankfistBe a man joedirt and start discarding people's videos or go on a downvote spree. You're sure to get your wish.
UsesProzacYeah, I agree with the Fist. Put your balls on the table.
joedirtI was hoping to avoid that. Can't someone just click the handcuffs on my profile page.
I'm serious, I want to live in hobble mode so I don't have to break things. It's not some trick to get someone in trouble.
Just click here
blankfist^No one likes a weeping pussy with no balls. Just go about downvoting and discarding. I promise you, you will be hobbled. Take your balls out of your purse and put them where your mouth is.
UsesProzacThis is like a cop saying, "Hey, take my gun. It's ok." and as soon as you take the gun, BAM, you're arrested. We can't call an unwarranted hobble on you! We'd get in major trubs, mang.
If you want shit, you step in it.
blankfistWhat's that I smell? Oh yeah, pussy. I guess this post once and for all proves joedirt is all talk and no balls. What a fucking joke. It's official. Everything out of his tired mouth from this point on is robbed of its integrity.
lucky760>> I wanted to put a poll up, but the one poll limit is also a bad idea because someone can just keep piling on *promotes.
No, they can't. Promotes have nothing to do with it. Poll voting is only active for the first 72 hours after original submission.
How is it "the ultimate abusable power?" In all your raving you've still failed to explain this most basic aspect of your argument. You should answer your rhetorical question: If someone abuses the power, what could possibly go wrong? Here are my answers... The hobbled user can:
- start a Siftquisition of the hobbler, thereby preventing any more hobbling and possibly starting a ban on the offender
- ask a diamond to hobble the hobbler
- ask an admin to un-hobble them
Given those points, the worst that can happen is a user is unfairly hobbled momentarily until the hobbler is dealt with. If someone abuses the power, they should be banned, and their damage will be immediately reversible.We aren't doing it automatically because it's too difficult to build intelligent automation to detect every possible scenario in which a user might need to be hobbled. That's what the community is for.
siftbotPromoting this Poll post - promote requested by lucky760.
lucky760That was obviously unintentional. I'm going to unpromote.
rottenseedI'll hobble you, I don't give a shit...if it's really what you want to do. I doubt it though, I think you're just attempting to prove a point though. Since the point you want to prove about abusing hobbles can only be proven through your request to be hobbled, it defeats to purpose and the point is lost. I will not be a victim of bad logic...
dagComment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)
Are you a Hobbes or Locke? Do you think mankind is basically good or evil? This would define your reaction to hobbling.
blankfistThis should be posted under * talk, because that's all it was.
dystopianfuturetoday
schmawyI'd like to sign up for a gang now. Get ahead of the rush.
Krupo(I'm referring internally to that vid and not the rest of this conversation.)
dystopianfuturetoday^Everyone is a winner deep inside, Krupo, everyone. I'm just trying to be encouraging.
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