> This really sucks and abusive V-gifts are more common than many > people think.
When we actually have V-gifts, we can look at the appropriate changes to the system to make it useful for DW. There's a careful line here, though. We want to keep the site open enough to encourage community and people interacting - even if it might mean that every once in a while there's a bad interaction. To go the other way, to close everything down and put people in little cages is to deny a lot of the potential for growth and overlap and interesting social interactions and etc etc etc. In this case, I agree with you, and think that implementing "who can send me a v-gift" as an option would be just fine. But in the general case, let's not be so quick to jump on board with "I should never, ever be offended." The Internet, the world, is going to offend you - and DW does not have a goal of protecting you from it. We will provide the tools to prevent most of the abuses, but people will *always* come up with new ways to bother you. It's an arms race, and not one I'm particular interested in fighting. I'd rather spend my time developing features that people actually will use to *create* and *build* a vibrant community (with the occasional rough edge) than spend all of my energy inventing ways to stop the latest troll tactics. Does that make sense? -- Mark Smith / xb95 [email protected] _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
