Coding Horror: Designing For Evil
by Volker Weber
Websites that allow users to post content will always be vulnerable to the actions of a handful of evil, spammy users. It's not pleasant. It is a dark mirror into the ugly underbelly of human nature. But it's also an unfortunate, unavoidable fact of life: some of your users will be evil. And when you fail to design for evil, you have failed your community.
Comments
how true, how true ...
Daniel Haferkorn, 2008-05-30