I have rarely, if ever, attached files on the forums before, and as such, was unaware that there was a filter blocking the attachment of .EXE files. When I first started reading this thread, that's what I thought
mbd was advocating, but it became clear it was actually about linking to .EXEs. I support the former, as it's a) already in place, and hasn't proven to be a problem, and b) it's automated, and requires zero effort from the moderators. However, I don't support the latter, for much the same reasons
Narue stated (much more succinctly than I would have), in particular the bit about malicious code in source files.
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Originally Posted by Narue
Ultimately, it's overly harsh for members, too difficult to implement successfully, and really buys us nothing. A much better solution is to leave things as they are and let the community police itself.
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I noticed that I'm the only one who voted 'no'. Come on!
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Originally Posted by mbd
the threads i linked in the original post in this thread do not contribute anything to the community other than malware and hacking requests. why are they still visible? this is my concern. are there not enough moderators to do the job? is there some method of alerting the moderators about useless threads that promote malware and hacking that i am unaware of?
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Try the 'report this post' link under the poster's name. Every post has one.
Apr 15th, 2008, 3:19 PM
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