On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 20:49, Tim Landscheidt <tim(a)tim-landscheidt.de> wrote:
"Amir E. Aharoni"
<amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> Of course Google has this kind of logs.
However, Google is just not
> transparant about it.
Being transparent is nice and important, but
being it is just as
important to be nice. "Filter log" is just as correct and transparent
as "abuse log", but doesn't make a newbie feel that he's accused of
abuse.
"Filter" in current German discussions /can/ allude to the
semi-governmental content filters deployed by most major
German ISPs to deny users access to child pornography web-
sites.
So, should we find a term that is suitable for all six
billion people on this planet, or should we covertly prefer
users who are curious enough to just click on that link to
find out what's behind it?
With crowdsourcing, finding the right word for six billion people is
not so hard. The admins of every language edition can find a suitable
word for their edition.
Most importantly, don't forget that you know what the abuse log is and
you know that it's harmless, but newbies don't know it. Many newbies
got really scared when they saw Windows 95's error messages about
applications that performed "illegal" actions. (I actually saw it
myself.)
I gave several classes of basic Wikipedia editing to groups of
newbies. The misunderstandings of the technical terms - and they do
encounter these technical terms - are most unexpected.
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Amir Elisha Aharoni
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