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isn't that a bit too extreme , if we decide to start a war with the terra we are going to die unless we strike them when they least expect it (Christmas) and we make sure their deaths are quick enough not to give them time to raise suspicion and nuke the mars .

that means we cannot beat the earth , because our community is about few hundred humans , that means we would lose the war with earth in the first day .

and i know people will be against soul energy and test tube creatures , this will turn all the world against us .

we would lose huge support and die in the space .

Quote from: Graknorke on August 15, 2012, 04:43:23 pm

No, I'm pretty sure it's probability based. You would never be 100% certain of blocking all of the radiation. Not that you'd want to if you wanted sustainable living, because some types of radiation (ultraviolet largely) are pretty important to have some of.

Notably the fact that ultraviolet radiation is the primary energy source of self-produced vitamin D. So tanning increases vitamin D.

So, vitamim D supplements, what else do we need?

Therefore... I demand that the next release of DF should only be fully loaded upon typing in a 128-character time-limited passphrase available only through entering registration details on a secure web-page, receiving and replying to a confirmation email, providing a number obtained from a personalised hashing calculator in the process.

While I can see this thread being a little off-putting to an honest-to-Armok new player, I think they'd have to understand our general frustration.  (I also didn't get the impression that it was a Troll, but then a good Troll wouldn't look like one, and a non-Troll might look obviously like one because they didn't know better in the first place, so I've no idea where that leaves that bit of Game Theory.)  I wandered in here after posting an (I hope) helpful "Yes, this has been suggested before, as you've just edited", with pointer to the Eternal Suggestions thread.  I think I also saw in the most-recent-threads-in-this-subgroup a title asking for restricted posting to here.  Going to check that out as well, see if I agree with it or not.  (First thoughts, no I don't...  But maybe allowing people to do so after having undertaken some sort of automated test on "how to search for regularly suggested things"?  A kind of equivalent to the Altar Of Literacy in KOL prior to using their chat, I suppose...)

It's pretty close to what we do now: the "oh god, not a multiplayer thread again" comments. It works quite well, and it's impossible to prevent all undesirable threads from coming into the forum by a few simple rules/laws.

That being said, maybe a limit of one thread created per day would prevent newbies going on a suggestion spree and focus their discussion somewhat. Most people will never even know the existence of that brake, so it's not particularly cumbersome.