Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] The CheckpointlyRecognizer(50.3/4)

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 06:16 PM, SkArcher wrote:

> > > > Would it be able to update Go moves in the same format, without 
> > > > lots of
> > > > setup? Would you really want to grant players all necessary
> > > > permissions?
> > > >
> > > > The thing that makes Wiki work is the realization that users in a
> > > > community don't have to distrust each other.
> > > >
> > > > I imagine proposals working like this: there's a Wiki page entitled
> > > > something like [Nweek 50 Proposals], and you make a proposal by 
> > > > adding
> > > > it as a section to the page. Editing someone else's proposal would 
> > > > be
> > > > against the Rules, so it wouldn't actually work, and it would be
> > > > punishable by a Kick in the Ass.
> > >
> > > How do you know who made the edit?
> > -I think the punishment should be more drastic. If you touch
> > someone else's prop, one of your props is replaced with "Give the
> > author of this proposal a Kick in The Ass. Give all points gained
> > by the passing of this proposal to <whoever wrote the prop you
> > changed>" If you try to undo that change, it's treated like you
> > changing someone else's prop and the points go to the Gremlin
> > Fund. If you have no props, one is made in your name with that text.
> >
> > And if we don't know who did it... dunno. Can the IP address be
> > traced? Is it worth anything to know the IP address?-
> Q1: Probably yes
>
> Q2: Probably not, judging by the technical level of most people here. 
> Heck,
> _I_ can spoof an IP, so lots of others can if they put their minds to 
> it.
>
> What it comes down to is trust. I _could_ but I wont bother because... 
> well,
> because I'm playing this game, not silly buggers. But then, I wouldn't
> illegally modify someone elses props, but I would correct their 
> spelling.

It seems to me that we already rely pretty heavily on trust - if we 
wanted to, we could do all sorts of nasty things, like making a puppet 
player and thus playing twice at once, or doing a reasonably convincing 
job of faking emails from other players. But there's really not any 
point. It'd be like reaching over and grabbing everybody's money in 
Monopoly - in a technical sense, you'd have won, but neither you nor 
the rest of players really got anything out of it.

Now, if we put real money on the game, then we'd have cause to screw 
with things...

--
Wonko

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