starritt

Yah I have been putting a lot of thought into the whole process and I think ultimatly it’d be an interesting experiment but it would never be perfect. I think with the strength of thousands of people supplying data it could work really well but folk would get caught in the cross fire by people not being careful with what they submit. I guess it wouldn’t be to hard to rank offenders if you actually apply some arbitrary rules to the whole thing.
A good example would be the fact that a big attack like this Texas Holdem thing would wind up getting reported time and time again and ultimatly there would be a pattern – we’d see that this occured x number of times over a period of time and would be able to ban that comments from that source for an extended period of time, a solitary poster who just happened to piss somebody off might get an arbitrary day or two. Its worth thought at any rate – with some kind of ranking in terms of the threat level users could potentially set a tolerance level for what they will allow and what they will not.
As for stability and uptime, I think if this worked and became popular we could setup mirrors or have a minor network of server sharing the load – I certainly don’t have the infrastructure to handle it alone and I’d welcome any suggestions on how this can be handled.
Either way I have been looking for something that I can work on project wise so I think I’ll just go ahead and do it however I’d like input and suggestions and so on, on a regular basis to ensure that at least on paper we my time is spent producing something that people will actually want to use.

Yah – me and four of the five other blogs I host.

Just get me the texas-holdem sites provider and I’ll give it a shot. I use all sorts of nasty legal language and it seems to work provided they are US or UK based.

Heh – I have no clue how to get contact info for the provider based on the internic record and the bot has taken to spoofing the IP address or running through proxies or something …

On the contruary, you’d be suprised what a well aimed complaint can do.