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Clothing Item: Sandwich Boards

as a kind of user-generated content---you could type in your own message for the sandwich board.

Posted 13 years ago by Nanookie | Permalink

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• +10 This is too awesome. :)
  Posted 13 years ago by Bunyip | Permalink
• love it! i actually had the same thought during one of the tests last week when Tingly was going around predicting the imminent end of the, er, the reset that's coming soon :)
  Posted 13 years ago by katlazam | Permalink
• End of the world party! A sign would be fantastic.
  Posted 13 years ago by Bunyip | Permalink
• +1
  
  i agree this would be awesome... but can be tricky with naughty players.
  Posted 13 years ago by Mabs | Permalink
• The end is nigh!
  
  Maybe I could get "the" onto one and still have it be legible.
  Posted 13 years ago by Tingly | Permalink
• "but can be tricky with naughty players"
  
  yeah, I thought that too, but if you can set up software that monitors chat for innappropriate content, maybe you could do it for user generated text too?
  
  "Maybe I could get "the" onto one and still have it be legible"
  
  They would be pretty tiny. But I just *really* wanna wear a sammich board.
  Posted 13 years ago by Nanookie | Permalink
• Tshirts.
  Posted 13 years ago by rothko | Permalink
• Th3r3 r way5 2 ge_t ar0und m0n1t0r 50ft-war3. Giving a choice of dev-written messages/pictures/symbols would work.
  Posted 13 years ago by Tingly | Permalink
• agreed. having tried my hand at building censoring (replacing naughtiness with frowny faces) software... it's just too easy to circumvent. no amount of pattern matching or creative heuristics will catch *everything*.
  
  that being said, even pictures and symbols are tricky since the only way to allow user-generated content is to moderate it, which gets to be a drag when there's a backlog.
  
  i agree that tiny-speck created text/imagery is the way to go.
  
  though... what if someone has a high enough "trustworthiness", determined by either a GM marking them as such personally, or by reaching a certain threshold of "karma"... they would then be able to create their own content? just an idea.
  Posted 13 years ago by Mabs | Permalink
• I just remembered that there are other languages besides English, tough to police. I thought of whitelisting words, but it wouldn't work. "Ask about my pix w/o clothes," all harmless until you put them together in that order. Even punctuation can be made naughty.
  Posted 13 years ago by Tingly | Permalink
• oh yes
  Posted 13 years ago by Alex | Permalink
• "i agree that tiny-speck created text/imagery is the way to go."
  
  Reluctantly, I have to admit, you are all right. And contemplating the time it would take to earn the level of trustworthiness that would allow me to put "I radiate energy...ask me how" on a tiny sammich board just makes me laugh.
  
  Although..making them up would be fun.
  Posted 13 years ago by Nanookie | Permalink
• maybe curated submissions. the devs have worked on other projects that have dealt well with the obnoxious&obscene.
  Posted 13 years ago by rothko | Permalink
• The submissions idea is a good one. :)
  Posted 13 years ago by Bunyip | Permalink