The f*ckwit filter may not be a native, in-house LiveJournal application...
...but I'm delighted to report that it's working beautifully on here, too.
Highly recommended to any users who have been troubled in the past by arse-clamp commentators, both on personal blogs and community posts.
I may even make the sensaes username available on a more open-source basis*, to anyone who wishes to make salient comments on community posts and message boards, but without the distraction of receiving time-wasting "I agree with this comment"-style responses, or other examples of pointless arse-clampery.
As far as I can tell, the only potential downside may be that your posted comments are rendered invisible to subsequent commentators, who are unable to notice that they are now needlessly repeating points you've already raised.
Only without your natural brevity and style.
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Edit: Cheers to B for this link...
http://stephenfry.com/blog/?p=39
(I didn't know he'd got one**, actually, and although the consensus in my circles is that Fry's both over-exposed and somewhat over-rated, he highlights the benefits of the tech pretty well there...)
*As K has suggested, the more outlandish and unlikely the thinking behind the joke, the more extreme will be the response from those elements of the readership with "unbalanced" tendencies. The absurdity of using LiveJournal as an ersatz pilot study testing ground is an old warhorse, beloved of the few academic LJ users (and observers) who work in the fields of clinical psychology and sociology, but have the good sense not to blog about their professional lives and/or interests via the service. Fortunately, however, this doesn't preclude them from sharing the joke - and its consequences - privately. In other words, we're good at this, as with everything else, and that's why we endure. Remember the adage: If you're too arrogant to learn, you have no business being in education.
**For the lazy-of-link-clicking, his outspoken love of the Asus Eee is also featured in Issue LXF106 of Linux Format magazine.
Highly recommended to any users who have been troubled in the past by arse-clamp commentators, both on personal blogs and community posts.
I may even make the sensaes username available on a more open-source basis*, to anyone who wishes to make salient comments on community posts and message boards, but without the distraction of receiving time-wasting "I agree with this comment"-style responses, or other examples of pointless arse-clampery.
As far as I can tell, the only potential downside may be that your posted comments are rendered invisible to subsequent commentators, who are unable to notice that they are now needlessly repeating points you've already raised.
Only without your natural brevity and style.
______________________________
Edit: Cheers to B for this link...
http://stephenfry.com/blog/?p=39
(I didn't know he'd got one**, actually, and although the consensus in my circles is that Fry's both over-exposed and somewhat over-rated, he highlights the benefits of the tech pretty well there...)
*As K has suggested, the more outlandish and unlikely the thinking behind the joke, the more extreme will be the response from those elements of the readership with "unbalanced" tendencies. The absurdity of using LiveJournal as an ersatz pilot study testing ground is an old warhorse, beloved of the few academic LJ users (and observers) who work in the fields of clinical psychology and sociology, but have the good sense not to blog about their professional lives and/or interests via the service. Fortunately, however, this doesn't preclude them from sharing the joke - and its consequences - privately. In other words, we're good at this, as with everything else, and that's why we endure. Remember the adage: If you're too arrogant to learn, you have no business being in education.
**For the lazy-of-link-clicking, his outspoken love of the Asus Eee is also featured in Issue LXF106 of Linux Format magazine.