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 Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 8:14 am?? ?Post subject: Girls Receive Up To 25 Times More Malicious Chat
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The University of Maryland conducted a survey with a result we probably all knew the outcome from in advance: woman and girls on IRC receive up to 25 times more sexually oriented chat requests then their male counterparts.
When using a nick that resembled a female name, the researchers received an average of 163 malicious requests per day, while chatting with a nick that did not show their gender only 4 to 25 times a day.
The females also received more files and links then their male counterparts in the research.
"Parents should consider alerting their children to these risks, and advising young people to create gender-free or ambiguous usernames," said one of the researchers. "Kids can still exercise plenty of creativity and self-expression without divulging their gender."
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MexDownunda
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Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 10:25 am?? ?Post subject: Re: Girls Receive Up To 25 Times More Malicious Chat
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| Asmo wrote: |
The University of Maryland conducted a survey with a result we probably all knew the outcome from in advance: woman and girls on IRC receive up to 25 times more sexually oriented chat requests then their male counterparts.
When using a nick that resembled a female name, the researchers received an average of 163 malicious requests per day, while chatting with a nick that did not show their gender only 4 to 25 times a day.
The females also received more files and links then their male counterparts in the research.
"Parents should consider alerting their children to these risks, and advising young people to create gender-free or ambiguous usernames," said one of the researchers. "Kids can still exercise plenty of creativity and self-expression without divulging their gender."
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This is why I always used a non-gender identifying nick. I recomend this to female chatters. Keep em guessing.
And folks, it really is rude to pop into anyones PM without asking first. What ever the reason. Nothng more rude that having a pm pop up asking ASL. If I want you to know, I will volunteer it in channel.
On our network anyone pops into anyone's PM with sexualy explicit or rude text, we tell our users to report it and we deal with the offender. It is just not on.
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PingBad
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Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 4:45 pm?? ?Post subject: Re: Girls Receive Up To 25 Times More Malicious Chat
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| MexDownunda wrote: |
And folks, it really is rude to pop into anyones PM without asking first. What ever the reason. Nothng more rude that having a pm pop up asking ASL. If I want you to know, I will volunteer it in channel.
On our network anyone pops into anyone's PM with sexualy explicit or rude text, we tell our users to report it and we deal with the offender. It is just not on. |
You said it dude(tte)... hence my PM Lock script (PM me for link... Asmo might hurt me if I divulge URL here)
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Asmo
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Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 4:51 pm?? ?Post subject:
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No thats ok, as long as its on topic ;)
I also made a small script that only popsup quries for people who are opped in channels I am in... (rest goes in single message window)
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Kahr
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Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 6:40 am?? ?Post subject:
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I'm open for anything! 
Thought I'm getting relatively little PM activity, even though I'm in #Chat-World on Undernet. It's a big channel. Lots of traffic. I guess it's one of them channels that REALLY prove that females get more PM activity. It's kind of funny to compare daily PMs with some of the regular and active females there compared to the males. 
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Asmo
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Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 8:30 am?? ?Post subject:
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This is the script I made that will only pop up a query for people who are opped in any channel you are in. This requires the setting of "single dedicated message window" enabled in mIRC (ALT-O, then IRC).
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on *:TEXT:*:?:{
? unset %block
? %channel = 1
? %channeltotal = $chan(0)
? while (%channel <= %channeltotal) {
? ? if ($nick isop $chan(%channel)) { set %block 1 }
? ? inc %channel
? ? inc %nick
? }
? if (%block == 1) { .query $nick | halt }
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Replace the 5th line with the following line if you also want to allow voiced users: if (($nick isop $chan(%channel)) || ($nick isvoice $chan(%channel))) { set %block 1 }
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Kahr
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Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 9:56 am?? ?Post subject:
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Nice script. I'm still not advanced enough a scripter to make fully sense of it, but I'm getting there.
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