How do we stop the flame wars that diminish this forum?
Some Internet venues have moderators whose job it is to monitor and remove defamatory content or content inappropriate to the subject.
Wikipedia, for example, lets anyone update their content, but vandals are cleaned up after and locked out.
The OTN database forums seem to have gotten several flame wars lately that do not contribute to the dissemination of information or knowledge germane the forum.
Does/should OTN forums have moderators who perform this housekeeping chore?
Surely, when someone clicks the little yellow triangle next to a post, your application code is smart enough to make a note of the unique ID of the post being complained about?
I don't quite see why any particular "combing" effort is needed. Someone complains about post ID 3746238746283. You read the words of that post. If you think they violate the terms & conditions, you delete post 3746238746283. Job done. The whole point was that you shouldn't be "combing through" threads at all, on the lookout for abuse that someone might have overlooked in their rush to complain, but simply responding to specific complaints about specific posts. And if you get fed up at a thread generating a whole lot of complaints, you simply lock the thread from any further additions.
Incidentally, I don't recall seeing in the terms and conditions that "posts have to be on-topic", only that they must not defame, harass or annoy or be a form of advertising, or a solicitation to join a commercial online or offline service. So why did you lock a perfectly civil thread in which no-one was being annoyed, defamed, harassed, solicited or advertised to about the legalities of libel in this forum? Suddenly, you appear to have made "extra-curricular-ness" a test all on its own. Unfair, I'd have said. Indeed, a year ago you were writing that "one person's nourishment is another person's poison" and that you were very much "in the "nourishment" category", firmly of the opinion "the beauty of a blog is that it can be a vehicle for creative self-expression, in which the reader learns something about the writer - not just dry facts." What is sauce for a blog, I'd have said, ought to be sauce for a forum.
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* @(#)CarWKeys.java
* CarWKeys Applet application
* @author
* @version 1.00 2008/11/29
import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
public class CarWKeys extends Applet implements Runnable
private Image dbImage;
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static int position=235;
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// You can change this delay to any value which effects in the speed of the game
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road rd;
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