On Tuesday 19 October 2010 16:41:35 Mally wrote: > ?Forgive my ignorance, but what happens at the moment? Does nobody say > anything to the abusers? Doesn't peer pressure, good example and setting > guidelines present a more realistic solution (realistic by comparison with > what happens in real world aviation I mean) rather than coming up with an > automated system of blocking and control?
Very sensible words. Technical solutions usually don't work for social problems. A simple word filter would not prevent me from offending people or even expressing death threats. It would probably not even prevent me from swearing excessively in German. It might on the other hand prevent me from simply talking to people. As an example: "jap" may be an offending reference to a Japanese (as on Curt's word list), but also simply be the German form of "yep". A word I use daily. Social problems are best solved by social solutions. In a friendly, welcoming and helping society foul language and threats usually don't come that far. For death threats, there are even more severe means available. Those are illegal in pretty much any country I know of and would result in immediate prison to protect the victim. The state simply cannot be sure if the offender might really do it. Stefan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download new Adobe(R) Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 The new Adobe(R) Flex(R) 4 and Flash(R) Builder(TM) 4 (formerly Flex(R) Builder(TM)) enable the development of rich applications that run across multiple browsers and platforms. Download your free trials today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
