hm.. theres not a real solution for solving trolls only, or pirates only or any of that sort

like kryo said, once privacy is gone  its gone, and surely peoplewill try to "improve" the rule for their need,  more tracking and being able to see and thus control what is going on,

as soon as some "popular"guy is constnatly nagging you on a forum where everyone is behind him (friends) you'll just think... w/e fuck the guy ima move on (on most occasions anyways)

having this number stuck to you forever will not do much good

tiny example is a minigame of warcraft III    called Battleships,  game creator = a totall ass (in my vieuw)  since he banned my name from his game there, reason?    i aproached him of his manner on his quotes to the losing team or people that quit the game (multiple reasons possible),(ima not repeat that sentence here, wont do me and...  err.,.... .. yah.  wont do me much good on the "never swears" list)

anyways,  he banned me for that, and if i should have an ID number attached ima guess he wouldve banned that one aswell... atleast now i can just make another name and play his games anyways (cuase even tough i dont like him, his game = great)

and yeah,  the id nubmer in question should ofcourse.. not be public  but you'll always have people that find a way in.

thing that makes internet great = anonymity  on the internet you can talk whats in your mind without major consequence, you'll find people whom totally agree with you, and people who are totally opposite,  and ofocurse the local jerk/troll  but you'll ignore those or start making fun of them

in real-life everyone knows your face, so you cant rlly talk with the words your having in mind.... and you'll always find some "weird" guys that aproach you and start doing dumb things (real life trolls???)  but you'll just ignore those 2 (best and prolly only thing to do..for your own health)

so that short, internet a place where peopel can express opininos without fysical consequence, adding an i-d tag to someone will take that away,  and ofcourse theres peopel who'll abuse it by placing quotes that are just mean,  but like trolls.. you ignore them

What is forum "trolling" anyway ?

In my experience, on half a dozen gaming forums, the negative label "troll" is too often cast by people who disagree with another poster's ideas or style of presentation of his ideas.

Also, you can be branded a "troll" if you go off-topic on a thread ... but that is such a frequent habit, even done by venerable forum veterans, that you only risk being then called a "troll" if your style of going off-topic is not approved by some self-appointed thread policeman.

Also, it happens that "fanboys" will pounce on any tenacious critic of their favourite game, and call him a "troll".

What I really like, on the StarDock forums, is that the moderators & SD representatives don't indulge in frequent, moralizing interventions.

I suppose that they only intervene if someone very obviously abuses a thread or other forum users. If they fell on all the off-topic posters, it would put a straight-jacket on creativity & freedom of expression.

Now, to come back off-topic > I think the towers came down because demolition charges had been previously pasted to the steel columns.  

GW, that was in response to Dead saying most murderers get caught.  It's... perhaps accurate, but misleading either way.

i guess jedmonds made a pretty good example of what a troll is..... u dont see em often.. but u do have peopel that in some extreme occasions post total nonesense like jedmonds lil laser there...

You're kidding, right?  Its much higher than 70%.  Look at NCIS, CSI Miami, CSI NY, CSI Las Vegas, Law and Order, Life, NYPD Blue, and Criminal Minds.  If you commit a murder, your ass will be caught within an hour...42 minutes if you dont count the commercials.  I don't kill people on a daily basis almost entirely due to the fact I don't want David Caruso showing up at my door and making me confess in a over-blubbery fashion to some crime I thought I would get away with.

Based on real-life shows like these, I would put the solve-rate for murders and other violent crimes (at least in America) more around 98.4%.  It would be closer to 100%, but sometimes it takes a 2nd episode or is split between the season finale and the next season's premiere to catch the guy, and that lowers the average a little.

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Not real life, bro.  Sorry to burst your bubble.

Each country will have to make a decision between the fallowing:

1) Risk seeing some text on a computer screen which calls you a f-tard.  (To use a phrase from the rather vulgur article.)

2) Give up freedom and privacy.

"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have." - Thomas Jefferson

Just remember that before you advocate a government which actively monitors and controls every communication on the internet.  It could lead to disaster, and you still might get called an f-tard.

The worst trolls are those that steal your game and then bash it because they can't get a patch easily, however I still feel that people's freedoms are more important.

lol your not actually thinking crime solving works like NCIS programs?   theres bene a debate recently that judges and jury should be remeberd that NCIS is just a show  and that they shouldnt expect that much from real life investigators  (poor guys investigating)

im not sure if i like your humor -.-

I recently sat on a jury and aquitted a guy for lack of evidence. No, we didn't expect DNA or anything for a drug-paraphenilia charge, but maybe a fingerprint would have been nice. The crack pipe in question was brought to trial, but had never been dusted. The guy's whole defense was "it's not mine, and you can't prove that I even knew it was there".

Seeing as he was a passenger in someone else's car, a car he had (suposedly) not been in previous to that night, and the entirety of the evidence against him is that a cop "saw" him drop something under the seat (from one moving car, looking into another, at several car lengths distance), it was far too little evidence to convict. The pipe was found under his seat, so under strict legal definition, he was in "possesion" of it, but the prosecutor never tried to prove it was ever in his actual possession, nor that he in fact knew it was there.

What really irked me is that the lack of fingerprinting also got the driver of the car off without ever being charged. Or the two people in the back seat. I'm sure ONE of those sets of fingerprints were on the pipe, and dusting for fingerprints would almost certainly have been cheaper than the ultimately unsuccessful trial was. Had fingerprint evidence been used, I'm quite sure the matter never would have gotten to trial in the first place.

I decided he was serious a while back, perhaps not rational, but serious.  Objectivity is a hard thing to maintain when an issue becomes personal, you've probably noticed that emotionally charged debates usually end up with both sides ranting and raving like lunatics, yes?

I just pray you know i was making a joke.  If you didn't...I was making a joke.

Dude, that was an absolutely hilarious response.