Comments on: Artists and Vandals

By: avdj

avdj — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:21:13 +0000

I see a high potential here. I would love to draw though. Is there a possibility of such a feature?

Graffiti is partly bohemian and delinquent, and partly human and fragile.

-avdj

By: Red

Red — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:31:43 +0000

@ anoopr .. Wow wasn’t expecting such a quick response.. Thank you :)

By: anoopr

anoopr — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:43:32 +0000

@Red I changed your username.

By: Red

Red — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:45:41 +0000

@ anoop .. I visited this blog for the first time and let me just say.. That I sincerely appreciate you taking time out of your life to respond to not only my messages but our entire graffitio community .. It’s good to know that you care about our concerns and questions .. But on a completely different topic .. The username that I chose apparently is too big for it to be published in it’s entirety .. Was kind of hoping that you could help me out by somehow reseting my username and allowing me to create another .. A suggestion for future updates would be to set a limit on the number of characters we can use on our names to avoid a situation like this .. Although I know that the chances of me getting a new username are slim to none .. I figured I would give it a shot .. ANY response would be awesome .. Even if it’s just to tell me to deal with it .. I really enjoy your application .. In all honesty it has become one of the many reasons why I love my iPhone .. And I cannot thank you enough for your hard work and genuine concern for us.

-Sincerely
Diego Corona

P.S. If you could manually change the name on my phone it would be from d[-_-]b Red Leader 559 to RED LEADER

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 08:24:52 +0000

Anoop : you seem level headed enough to realise that there will always be knuckleheads. It’s tychos greater Internet fuckwad theory :). For those complaining about the hate, I understand why you are so outraged, but the thing is; what would you have done if you read it on a real wall? What’s that? Probably nothing? Apply the same logic. Hate speech is annoying and I abhor it, but it’s a part of the human condition. Sour and the sweet people. That said, I like that there are no regional walls, and the boards are all user generated.

By: anoopr

anoopr — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:11:03 +0000

There are currently 62,715 messages on the Infinite Wall. There is no way that I can personally sit and monitor what people are saying and ban them. I have a life outside of Graffitio that includes my life and my job. Even if I tried, it would be a losing battle. I also don’t want to draw the line as to what’s acceptable and what is not. We all have different lines. This particular decision was made easy for me by the fact that it was flooding the server.

What I am doing is spending the time I would use moderating to develop features that will allow you to dampen the noise. The first step is usernames. With permanent usernames, we no longer have to deal with the imposters. It’ll enable the artists to have real conversations, and I’m certain that people looking to talk about things of substance will soon drown out the knuckleheads. I’m thinking about two options. The default setting will be to not show unsigned posts or to not allow unsigned posts on the regional and infinite walls. We’ll have to see.

There are also over 30,000 walls that aren’t the Infinite Wall, which for the most part, are clean. As I said in this post, the Infinite Wall is more trouble than it’s worth, and if things don’t improve, I will just kill it.

But if you want to delete the app, I totally understand. Drop back in after a few releases and you may like what you find.

And I wonder what ever happened to the user who’s posting privileges were suspended…

By: ANOOP IS A LOVER OF HATE!!

ANOOP IS A LOVER OF HATE!! — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:48:44 +0000

Well why would you block someone for the number of times they post but not what they post. As I write this there is people on the ifinite wall posting messages of Racisim, Anit-Nationalist, Bigots, and all sorts of hate mongers, but they are allowed to post as long as they do not send numerous messages in a short time span? Kinda backwards dont you think? I have deleted the app do to the hate. You say people come there to post things of a good nature, but im sorry to inform you that is few and far between. So someone called you a pig after you threatened to block him/her? Maybe him/her just wanted the free reign as you give the other knuckleheads. One of your messages on the infinite wall says respect one another. Go on your app right now and see if thats being done. Than comeback here and post some more lies that all is good in the world of Graffitio. Thank you for at least allowing me to post my message of disagreement with you and look forward to seeing your answer if you dove one!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:01:40 +0000

as long as I DONT have to register to post comments, I’ll be happy. Any sort of register requires authentication, a form of power structure, accouunts can be moderated blah. I know this is not your intent, but sometimes it’s better to wallow in the beauty of the noise, rather than posting OFFICIAL comments from Joe Dumbshit.

By: anoopr

anoopr — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:58:22 +0000

@Anonymous: I couldn’t have said it better myself. Especially the “OPTION of credit” part. That is why even if you sign up for a username, when you make a post, you have the option of not including the username and just having an unsigned numbered post like you do now. Usernames allow artists to definitively claim their work. Consider them a certificate of authenticity.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:53:00 +0000

Anonymity can achieve wonderful and terrible things. It’s natural forthere to be vandals. Implementing usernames is a terrible idea. It does not reflect real graffiti. Graffiti is a powerful public forum which has the OPTION of credit, but would you ever really know? There in lies the power and the flaw.