Canadians (and anyone who isn't a'Murican) are already bracing for the inevitable, "Not available in your country" error message.

Maybe Google does this already, but if a site isn't playing nicely then hit them where it counts, right in their page rank. Rank them lower on search results for a given topic and kick them off of news.google.com. I'm looking at you National Post, Huffington Post and Wall Street Journal - damn you and your auto play videos and your full page blockup ads.

This submission is a dupe. Topic originally covered on Slashdot June 4th. here -> http://tech.slashdot.org/story...

Cookies - if a user has them disabled they can't login to quite a few sites until they turn them back on. (Sure session id's can be attached to headers, but that has other security issues) IE 6 & 7- check. Privacy settings, if locked down as secure as one can make it, this will filter or block 90% (source: thin air) of the web. IE7 & 8 - check. Get the idea, irrelevant stat notwithstanding? This new "Untrackable" option, if turned on, will prevent you from viewing 90% of the web - eventually. How long will it take developers to add in the same functionality, hacks and patches that make Privacy Settings and disabling Cookies useless?

I flat out refuse to pay $30/mo to babysit. That is all you have suggested I do. It has turned from a "pay to play" to a "pay to babysit" scenario. I refuse. As much as I would like to play WoW - forget it. /ignore = babysit this little brat. /ban = babysit that little brat. /report = babysitting

What is so hard to understand about that? I don't pay to babysit... I should get paid to do it.

I spent 2 1/2 hours taking screen shots and writing up reports that took a week to be reviewed and in the end that player was sent a polite little letter asking them not to behave like that again.

I played for about 5 hours a week - max - on a slow week.

forget it. it's not worth it.

Blizzard et al. will continue to cater to these foul mouthed brats because they pay. The rest of us don't/won't waste our time.

If Blizzard did somehow clean up their servers for the rest of us they would have to kick those brats off and then where would they be? Trying to convince us to come back? I don't think so. It's stupid incarnate in there and far worse than a daycare...

children babysitting children... because they refuse to pay for daycare staff.

Why would Blizzard et al. even bother to try to clean it up when it's exactly those same idiots that they're making the money off of? Why should Blizzard pay staff to kick paying customers off of the servers? So they can loose money to loose more money? Once word got out that there were 'secret WoW police" wandering about handing out suspensions things might improve... but I doubt it.

I would encourage everyone to vote with their feet and quit playing all together.