Require that new account registrations provide a real ISP provided email address, IE not a free account.
People without a real email address would be required to be sponsered by a current member in good standing who knows them personally either IRL or online.
Alternatively a very polite message to one of the admins explaining why they can't provide a real email address could be considered grounds for admission into the forum.
Set up a default ignore list for all users. Anyone on the list isn't banned, they can still post, but thier posts have to be specifically selected by the users in order to be read.
This reduces thier visibility without triggering them to generate new accounts.
It would be even better if the disruptive people on the default ignore list did not use the default ignore list when they are viewing the forum. This would hopefully add to the illusion that thier posts were easily visible and further work to avoid triggering them to start a new account.
If it is causing so much interferance I would hope that it would be easy to stop or moderate.
How strong is the interferance?
How far from the power lines does it extend? (Of course power lines are everywhere, so even a 10 meter wide stretch of interferance would be significant.)
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There's no Party Party?
Somebody'll have to start it.
...is already malware.
Adding more would be redundant.
I agree with your sig.
I'll have to see if I can recall the password for my old account so I can start putting it into practice.
Make sure you don't simulate a holographic criminal supergenius or it'll try to escape to the real world.
How is it that a first post can be redundent?
Because *every* article has a first post.
Indeed. I'm waiting for an OS with a direct telepathic interface.
No. I usually have several lying around. He hasn't even shown interest in the cables.
But I like my text-to-speech output when it sounds like a Berserker. -Goodlife
http://www.robotroom.com/
Robot info, projects, and stuff.
He writes books also, scroll down a bit for the free content.
Now all we need to do is figure out how to get our money back for the operating system we're not using.
The last set of articles I saw about the Loebner prize pointed out that they have had serious organizational and/or personality problems.
Was this competition ran in a coherant fashion?
...and send them goat.cx?
Require that new account registrations provide a real ISP provided email address, IE not a free account.
People without a real email address would be required to be sponsered by a current member in good standing who knows them personally either IRL or online.
Alternatively a very polite message to one of the admins explaining why they can't provide a real email address could be considered grounds for admission into the forum.
Set up a default ignore list for all users. Anyone on the list isn't banned, they can still post, but thier posts have to be specifically selected by the users in order to be read.
This reduces thier visibility without triggering them to generate new accounts.
It would be even better if the disruptive people on the default ignore list did not use the default ignore list when they are viewing the forum. This would hopefully add to the illusion that thier posts were easily visible and further work to avoid triggering them to start a new account.
...but people don't believe me when I say that we currently have the technology to create a total lockdown of digital content.
Sure, the analog hole is still there, but we don't want to be limited by that, do we?
Darn you!
You tricked me into RTFAing!!!
They died for oil. Register as a Republican and you'll get a secret PIN to punch into the gas pump.
I'm really enjoying the 87 cent gas.
There already was a pool playing robot on Slashdot.
I posted some information about a certian political party, with proper documentation from multiple sources, and it was deleted. Not edited, deleted.
Do you honestly believe that members of other political parties wouldn't do the same thing?
I have no idea which party you are refering to, but *every* political party has a few rabid members.
I would like a gmail invite.
bblalock at mtco dot com
Thank You.
May I have an invite? moriarty70 at yahoo dot com
Thanks!
Is there any chance that shrimp will be hunted to extinction to make these?
So this will be increasing the "noise" part of the singal-to-noise ratio?
If it is causing so much interferance I would hope that it would be easy to stop or moderate.
How strong is the interferance?
How far from the power lines does it extend? (Of course power lines are everywhere, so even a 10 meter wide stretch of interferance would be significant.)
The issue with patents is that certain basic ways of accomplishing tasks can be restricted.
Changing licenses won't prevent the use of litigation to suppress open source tools which do the same things as commercial products.