Mises.org allows any reader of daily articles, or articles in general to “tag” them, with whatever they please. I have noticed that countless articles have been tagged by trolls with, condescending, straw man, asinine, inane, sarcastic expressions. The lastest being an example. It appears the trolls are too lazy to post on the discussion boards, since that requires getting an account.
Good find. You should message Jeffrey Tucker about this.
Saboteurs, most likley. This should be dealt with.
other examples
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Is anyone here familier with how Wikipedia “bots” work? Could mises.org set up something like that here to prevent this?
Simple solution: Allow any mises.org member to remove a tag added by someone who is not the editor of the article.
I second the motion. I agree.
British Accent Summon the firing squad!
That just seemed funny to me.
Yay over here, as well.
And here
Ok, I think I’ve snagged all those.
I’ll ask david about tying the logins but I think there might be an issue here.
Thanks. Are you saying you think there might be an issue with some registered users?
No, I’m speaking of perms for deleting tags. This is really a different set of log ins.
Shouldn’t only a select few be allowed to delete tags anyways? After all, trolls have registered on these boards before.
Perhaps people who have been regular posters for at least one year? If you lasted that long as a regular poster you are probably not a troll. Maybe the “points” could be used to determine this???
While on tags, what exactly do they do?
They help searches, you can find a tagged article by its tag or search for articles with a certain tag.
Mises.org searches or web searches via google, yahoo, etc?
Not sure except to comment that Mises.org’s site search is Google.
Ive figured it out. Thanks. By google, I meant searching the entire net and not just mises.