Maybe we should just have a select few regular posters be able to do it? Jon Irenicus and liberty student come to mind, among others.
Thanks very kind Kaju, but I would have to decline if asked. I already spend too much time here. We’re going into a Depression you know… [:)]
Rather than police the tags after the fact, how about having all user-contributed tags inactive until they’re approved by an administrator? You could treat the time spent approving/rejecting tags as a marketing cost. The site would be fine even if you never found the time to get around to it. An easy time-saver would be automatically accepting a tag that came from a poster with X points or more, for example.
That sounds like a pain in the neck. I agree that spammy tags are no good but tags of disagreement (“Stupidstuff” “fallaciies run amok” “evil” etc.) are fine, it seems to me. They help draw people to articles and indicate a level of interest that is good. I’m really reluctant to pull them.
I found another one:
Some of these tags also should be deleted. Not all of them but some of them.
i dunnno.. maybe if everyone here looked hard enough you would find someone dying from hunger somewhere in the world…would anyone here stop say, stop me from coming into your house to take cheerios or whatever else thaty is in their cupboard to feed some starving youths?
if there are people tryuly dying of hunger/starvation now it would seem that many are ok with letting people die while refusing the taking of food-property.
but thats only if there are people dying of starvatiom of course.
You’ve been lied to by Oxfam, those children aren’t starving, just anorexic.
If, in your question the assumption is this person will die without this taking it is a type of question is often called the “Lifeboat Scenario”. While interesting in philosophy, it is not very useful in economics because such occurrences are, in the real world, so very rare. There are many, many voluntary charities that help people in need. I have voluntarily donated to Goodwill, an organization that helps people help themselves. I have also, voluntarily, donated to the American Red Cross. If you wish to encourage people to voluntarily give more that is fine with me. In any case what does this have to do with Internet vandalism?
We are starting to have more of these graffiti tags again.
I do wish this tagging system were changed somehow.
Here is another blatent one:
As is this: