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To: Dale Baker who wrote (17181)	5/18/2003 12:48:53 PM
From: SI Bob	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 32873

While I'm a big fan of consistency, and a hot stove burning ALL who touch it (Matt's probably tired of that sermon), I also know that it's impossible to break things down into a clear set of rules that could be acted on by a robot. There are too many factors to take into account in each instance. One of my favorite examples is that if some new user engaged in a personal attack, they'd get their wrist slapped much harder than, say, David Lawrence. Identical offenses but lots of other information that rightly should (feel free to disagree -- I know of the cases against this argument) be taken into account. In the former example, it'd likely be a 3-day suspension because it was a new person whose only contribution to the site was a personal attack. In the latter, it would be more likely a deletion and warning because the author has a long history of being a valuable contributor and had either lost their temper or had a lapse of judgment, as we all can do sometimes. And the "gray fog" doesn't stop there. Provocation has to be considered. It just can't be all defined in writing. But I'll have a look at the TofU when I get a chance and if I see things that need to be clarified, I'll do so. But I can't do, as some have seriously suggested, things like listing all of the "forbidden" words and a specific penalty for the use of each one. A lot of it necessarily has to be subjective and left in the hands of an administrator who will hopefully be as objective as humanly possible. SI Classic interface: Not only is it not going anywhere, I'm also going to be looking to see if the Classic Classic (Dryer original) interface exists anywhere and add that. As I've demonstrated on iHub, I'm very much into letting the user have as much control as possible over his interface. The same will certainly hold true here. And it'll be my chance to do it in a larger fashion than I do on iHub. Because the user-configurability is still in a fairly early development stage, and because it's all controlled by database entries, it's been fairly limited. Screen colors, menu colors, menu items as either text or buttons, etc. Not much along the lines of what options are available and where they appear. On SI it'll get expanded to control the availability and location of screen elements and to include "presets" so that it's easy to either toggle between different dissimilar interface. And to make whatever changes are desired to them. Each user choosing for themselves exactly what they want the interface to look like.