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GlenBarrington · 09-29-2010, 06:24 AM

It's the internet, none of them will reduce flamewars, trolls, bad language, or general crankiness. They will make using this site unpleasant or expensive to use in either time or money, however.

All of the suggestions would be perfect for turning this site into an exclusive little club of like minded individuals though. Maybe that's a good thing, maybe not; but it would guarantee that the site's influence in the world of eReader devices and the people who use them would atrophy to the point of irrelevance.

The only thing that MIGHT work is take away the abilitiy to edit or remove posts. Eventually, the knowledge that everything posted will remain in 'the cloud' forever as originally posted, will cause SOME people to show some restraint.

09-29-2010, 06:24 AM	#83
GlenBarrington Cheese Whiz Posts: 1,986 Karma: 11677147 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Springfield, Illinois Device: Kindle PW, Samsung Tab A 10.1(2019), Pixel 6a.	All these proposals suck, bigtime. . . It's the internet, none of them will reduce flamewars, trolls, bad language, or general crankiness. They will make using this site unpleasant or expensive to use in either time or money, however. All of the suggestions would be perfect for turning this site into an exclusive little club of like minded individuals though. Maybe that's a good thing, maybe not; but it would guarantee that the site's influence in the world of eReader devices and the people who use them would atrophy to the point of irrelevance. The only thing that MIGHT work is take away the abilitiy to edit or remove posts. Eventually, the knowledge that everything posted will remain in 'the cloud' forever as originally posted, will cause SOME people to show some restraint. Last edited by GlenBarrington; 09-29-2010 at 06:27 AM.