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Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs Posted Mar 12, 2003
If you put it that way, yeah, you'd probably need to do quite a lot of moderating.
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Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Posted Mar 12, 2003
I would suspect it would run in global pre-moderation mode anyway; compared to the likes of h2g2 there wouldn't be a huge amount of traffic... †
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Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs Posted Mar 12, 2003
Probably not.
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OwlofDoom Posted Mar 12, 2003
The other thing I thought immediately when reading this is that someone could post an obituary for someone who is still alive (presumably if they have some kind of vendetta, making all their online friends and family depressed and so on) - not nice....
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Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs Posted Mar 12, 2003
And how would you know if someone was dead? I don't know any Guide Researchers IRL, so nobody'd know.
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Ion the Naysayer Posted Mar 13, 2003
Yes, I could definitely imagine problems with abuse... The only person I know on H2G2 IRL is my (now ex-)S.O. 
I don't believe for a second that she would do that sort of thing but I'm probably not the only one in that particular position...
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Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs Posted Mar 13, 2003
Yeah, the moment you get a lot of people together you get some sick puppies.
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SEF Posted Mar 13, 2003
That sounds too much like the Tom Lehrer song about "sharing" (A907517). 
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Ralph the Wonder Llama and André the dodo; Excrement Occurs Posted Mar 13, 2003
"sick" as in mentally sick, of course.
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