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kleinbl00  ·  3421 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Yesterday Global, Today Global Chatter. What can we as users do about the spam?

I like it.

One of my cousin's friends came up with a "genius" system for traffic enforcement - every licensed driver gets an official DOT paintball gun and three official DOT paintballs PER MONTH. Anybody who acts like an asshole in traffic gets shot with paintballs. Cops to pull over and ticket anyone with more than, say, five hits on their car.

Aside from the fact that it encourages drivers to shoot at each other (among other dire problems), the limited quantity of paintballs would cause drivers to take their shots seriously (assuming the paintballs couldn't be easily counterfeited, at which point it starts to sound like the Joker's fever dream). So - limit your available strikes and have them replenished by the system in response to legit hits.





rinx  ·  3421 days ago  ·  link  ·  

While I love the "tag the asshole system" probably best to do it electronically / metaphorically - the idea of giving drivers paintballs horrifies me. I went to a game once where several people were hospitalized when someone swapped his paintballs out for marbles.

kleinbl00  ·  3421 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, that should be extremely against the law.

You paintball? 'cuz I have a needs-to-be-used Tippman X-7 in Hello Kitty regalia and I'm about to be up that way.

rinx  ·  3421 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I used to a lot! My friends out here aren't into it, I'd be game for playing again though. I mostly used to do scenarios, Oklahoma and Skirmish dday. Doesn't seem like a lot of that out here. But I would love to see a hello kitty themed Tippman, I didn't know that was on my bucket list until this moment. My last Tippman was a 98 custom :)

kleinbl00  ·  3421 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Put a pin in that. Let's see what happens.

user-inactivated  ·  3421 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    So - limit your available strikes and have them replenished by the system in response to legit hits.

That would be a great addition to the idea. It further limits abuse.