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richard
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Scribbling issue
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Jan 9 18:59 UTC 2004 |
In item #71, Valerie wrote:
"I've written a command that people can use to remove all of the responses
they have ever made, from an item, from a conference, or from all of
Grex.
It's running now to remove all of the responses I entered as "valerie".
It takes a long time to run."
Something occurs to me that is a strong argument that users using such a
program as this should be disallowed by staff.
If user "abc" is a longtime user with a lot of posts and then leaves, or
simply goes away for a while, login "abc" could get reaped and recycled.
Somebody troublemaker then could run newuser and get the login "abc" and
then run Valerie's program and scribble hundreds of posts they never made.
For instance, I just noticed that my old login Kerouac is reaped. I don't
care, I don't particularly want it anymore. But I have many posts on here
under that login. Could someone else now run newuser, get Kerouac, and
then user Valerie's program to remove my posts. My posts, not theirs? It
seems to me that staff needs to ensure that only the person who made the
post can scribble it, and if four users in ten users have had login "abc"
and made posts, how does a program like Valerie's tell which user had the
login when a particular old post was made?
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jp2
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response 1 of 58:
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Jan 9 19:01 UTC 2004 |
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keesan
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response 2 of 58:
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Jan 9 19:22 UTC 2004 |
What I don't like about this is 'it takes a long time to run', which slows
grex down. Then everyone else has to do fixseen on every conference where the
responses were scribbled, which slows grex down even more. I am in favor of
removing this script so that people cannot do this sort of global scribble.
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jep
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response 3 of 58:
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Jan 9 19:36 UTC 2004 |
Anyone could write a script like the one valerie left. Valerie was not
the first person who ever left Grex (or M-Net) but deleted all of their
postings first, though she is the highest profile person to do so.
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keesan
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response 4 of 58:
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Jan 9 19:57 UTC 2004 |
I couldn't write a script like that and I bet most other users also do not
know how to do so.
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aruba
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response 5 of 58:
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Jan 9 20:08 UTC 2004 |
Richard - Jamie is correct in #1. If I created a new account called
"kerouac", it would almost surely have a different UID than your old
account. And because of that, Picospan wouldn't allow me to remove your
posts.
I suggest trying it to make sure that's true.
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gull
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response 6 of 58:
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Jan 9 20:17 UTC 2004 |
If valerie had used 'nice' to run it, it probably wouldn't have bogged
down the system.
Do I think it's a polite thing to do? No. But I don't think it's
reasonable to stop people from scribbling their responses, and I don't
given that I don't think we can prohibit them from automating the
process.
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gull
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response 7 of 58:
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Jan 9 20:18 UTC 2004 |
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gull
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response 8 of 58:
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Jan 9 20:18 UTC 2004 |
I meant that last sentence to read 'But I don't think it's reasonable to
stop people from scribbling their responses, and given that I don't
think we can prohibit them from automating the process.'
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tod
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response 9 of 58:
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Jan 9 23:51 UTC 2004 |
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naftee
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response 10 of 58:
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Jan 9 23:51 UTC 2004 |
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