SpaceShipThree to be Orbital Spacecraft

FleaPlus writes "The president of spaceflight company Virgin Galactic has recently stated that if the upcoming suborbital service with SpaceShipTwo is successful, the follow-up SpaceShipThree will be an orbital craft. Although orbital spaceflights would be much longer and could potentially dock with orbital space stations, they are also considerably more difficult than suborbital spaceflights. Other private firms working on orbital spaceflight (and potentially in the running for Robert Bigelow's $50 million America's Space Prize for orbital flight) include t/Space and SpaceX."

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Re:GNAA outreach program hailed as a success

[godfra]

Quite. What the hell is this rubbish? And why are they posting it as FP on every single thread? I have mod points today and I'm going to use them!!

Modded out

[jurt1235]

It is modded out already (as far as possible with the moderation system), the bad part is, that this person who posts that message has now posted it several times, thus making you, me and others look at that nonsense and most likely hurtfull text several times now.
Search engines will also pick it up, that way spreading it even further.

A change in the moderation system would be nice, but writing this down will probably break the fabric of the universe:
I, a regular /. visitor and contributor (ok, all my contributions are denied sofar), ask /. to CENSOR /. for certain messages, and block access for certain IP addresses which post offtopic texts with highly likely hurtfull content.
Proposal to get a message offline is: Introduce an extra modifier hurtfull/discriminative. Once a message is marked that way once only, a message will be generated at one of the maintainers. He/she will look at it and disable/remove the message if it a valid moderation in that category. If is not a valid moderation in that category, extra hurtfull moderations will not produce extra messages.

I know this is way offtopic, just as the parent is, but something needs to be done about the grandparent messages.

Best regards,

Jurt1235

Re:Modded out

[SimilarityEngine]

You could simply view with threshold = 0. Then you don't have to read this rubbish, once it has been moderated. Any modification to the moderation system itself won't prevent us from having to read it before it gets moderated, so I think we should leave that aspect of the system as it is.

In terms of preventing it from appearing in the first place, maybe we need some kind of spam-filter, which flags dubious messages for the editors' attention. Until it has been checked out, it doesn't appear in the comments list.