Political Theory

Re: Mises.org is compromised

ryanpatgray — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:21:17 GMT

We are starting to have more of these graffiti tags again.

I do wish this tagging system were changed somehow.

Here is another blatent one:

http://mises.org/story/3303

As is this:

http://mises.org/story/3292

Re: Mises.org is compromised

ryanpatgray — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:36:58 GMT

sthomper:

i dunnno.. maybe if everyone here looked hard enough you would find someone dying from hunger somewhere in the world....would anyone here stop say, stop me from coming into your house to take cheerios or whatever else thaty is in their cupboard to feed some starving youths?

if there are people truly dying of hunger/starvation now it would seem that many are ok with letting people die while refusing the taking of food-property.

but thats only if there are people dying of starvation of course.

If, in your question the assumption is this person will die without this taking it is a type of question is often called the "Lifeboat Scenario". While interesting in philosophy, it is not very useful in economics because such occurrences are, in the real world, so very rare. There are many, many voluntary charities that help people in need. I have voluntarily donated to Goodwill, an organization that helps people help themselves. I have also, voluntarily, donated to the American Red Cross. If you wish to encourage people to voluntarily give more that is fine with me. In any case what does this have to do with Internet vandalism?

Re: Mises.org is compromised

hayekianxyz — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:47:28 GMT

You've been lied to by Oxfam, those children aren't starving, just anorexic.

Re: Mises.org is compromised

sthomper — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:36:24 GMT

i dunnno.. maybe if everyone here looked hard enough you would find someone dying from hunger somewhere in the world....would anyone here stop say, stop me from coming into your house to take cheerios or whatever else thaty is in their cupboard to feed some starving youths?

if there are people tryuly dying of hunger/starvation now it would seem that many are ok with letting people die while refusing the taking of food-property.

but thats only if there are people dying of starvatiom of course.

Re: Mises.org is compromised

ryanpatgray — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:50:31 GMT

Some of these tags also should be deleted. Not all of them but some of them.

http://mises.org/story/3128

Re: Mises.org is compromised

ryanpatgray — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:30:49 GMT

I found another one:

http://mises.org/story/3246

Re: Mises.org is compromised

jtucker — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:08:47 GMT

That sounds like a pain in the neck. I agree that spammy tags are no good but tags of disagreement ("Stupidstuff" "fallaciies run amok" "evil" etc.) are fine, it seems to me. They help draw people to articles and indicate a level of interest that is good. I'm really reluctant to pull them.

Re: Mises.org is compromised

PeterWellington — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:29:13 GMT

Rather than police the tags after the fact, how about having all user-contributed tags inactive until they're approved by an administrator? You could treat the time spent approving/rejecting tags as a marketing cost. The site would be fine even if you never found the time to get around to it. An easy time-saver would be automatically accepting a tag that came from a poster with X points or more, for example.

Re: Mises.org is compromised

liberty student — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:19:27 GMT

Thanks very kind Kaju, but I would have to decline if asked. I already spend too much time here. We're going into a Depression you know...

Re: Mises.org is compromised

krazy kaju — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:10:18 GMT

ryanpatgray:
Perhaps people who have been regular posters for at least one year? If you lasted that long as a regular poster you are probably not a troll. Maybe the "points" could be used to determine this??????

Maybe we should just have a select few regular posters be able to do it? Jon Irenicus and liberty student come to mind, among others.

Re: Mises.org is compromised

pairunoyd — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:05:17 GMT

Ive figured it out. Thanks. By google, I meant searching the entire net and not just mises.

Re: Mises.org is compromised

RJ Moore II — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:56:09 GMT

Not sure except to comment that Mises.org's site search is Google.

Re: Mises.org is compromised

pairunoyd — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:47:39 GMT

Mises.org searches or web searches via google, yahoo, etc?

Re: Mises.org is compromised

RJ Moore II — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:38:18 GMT

They help searches, you can find a tagged article by its tag or search for articles with a certain tag.

Re: Mises.org is compromised

pairunoyd — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:27:22 GMT

While on tags, what exactly do they do?