response 28 of 56:

Jan 10 21:47 UTC 2004

de-permitting the script for valerie's program or otherwise disallowing
automated scribbling is a matter of avoiding reckless behaviour.  Suppose
somebody goes on a flaming spree in Agora and insults everyone in site and
gets in fights and has people responding to him upset.  And then he runs this
script and has all his posts automatically removed. This single handedly tears
up the conference and makes people with posts responding to him potentially
look bad because all of a sudden there is no context for their own heated
responses.  Only allowing scribbling one message at a time makes removing so
many posts from any one conference impractical.  It could still be done but
it would take so much time few would do it.  It is a safety net and would
encourage users to have to go slowly and think more about scribbling post
after post.  

These conferences are what Grex is all about. Staff should want them kept
intact as much as possible because without them, what is Grex?  Those
conferences aren't just a collection of individual posts, they are WHOLES,
they are a collective work.  This just brings up the whole copyright
debate again, but I think people who post here do so knowing that their
words are being in effect published, that they give permission to Grex to
spread their words over the web as part of Grex.  And as such when you
scribble or delete posts, it affects more than just you.  Grex should not
encourage mass scribbling by allowing it to be too convenient to do so