Once I select pre-view, it shows up as garbage (e.g. Chinese, Japanese), other times it shows up as Unicode's html code (e.g. Hindi).

First: <sometimes when I paste non-english characters into the text box, it shows correctly. (I presume this is done on the browser side copy/paste internally). Once I select pre-view, it shows up as garbage (e.g. Chinese, Japanese), other times it shows up as Unicode's html code (e.g. Hindi).

Is this done by the/my browser? Or is it a setting on CG.com's server side?>

That's a tough one to answer. Unicode is tricky business and I can't promise we do Unicode perfectly.

Not long ago somebody pointed out a bug which occurred due to a combination of our enforced word-wrapping system when combined with moderately long Russian words. I believe we fixed that bug, but it doesn't preclude the possibility of their being other Unicode bugs.

That being said, other software might not do it perfectly either. So it's possible that where you copied it from has something to do with how well it pastes into the browser.

Wannabe wants to know, is there any possible way, to add a second check box, on the ignore list, such that any IP address (class D) can also be ignored?

Likewise Jim Bartle asked if we could announce publicly which users were sock-puppets of which other users.

The answer is basically "no", if not for technical reasons then certainly for policy reasons.

Let me tell you a story which might shed light on why we think it would be a bad policy:

Not long ago we were trying to monitor a well known sock-puppet offender by seeing which accounts shared the same IP address. Let's just call him "B" (for "bad boy"). To my great surprise one of our oldest and most respected posters showed up on the list. Let's call him "A" (for "Angel".)

Now I know A couldn't possibly be the mastermind behind B and his army of sock-puppets, but there it was in black and white--they both used the same IP address. What on earth was going on? Do they know each other in real life? Do they share the same library or university? Had B stolen A's cellphone?

I sent a polite and very non-accusatory email to "A" to try to figure out what the situation was. The answer was simple: you see, "A" likes to visit Chessgames every now and then from work (on his free time of course) but their firewall is configured so that no site with the word "games" in it can be accessed. To get around this, he uses a free proxy service.

So while "A" used the proxy service for innocent reasons, at the same time "B" used the very same service for somewhat nefarious reasons. And they ended up with the same IP addresses by sheer coincidence.

Now we have other tricks up our sleeves than simply looking at IP addresses, and this corroborated A's explanation. (But we're not going to talk about those techniques, for the same reason the military doesn't brag about all the clever tricks their spies use.)

User: freeman

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Cool with me, thanks for the explanation. (Actually a simply 'NO' would suffice. =)

Unicode: Here is what I did,

1. go to Google Translate: http://translate.google.com/

2. Type some English on the left hand side.

3. Select Chinese/Japanese as your target

4. Copy the translation to a kibitz box. (It should show up exactly the same)

5. Select 'Kibitz' and it will get mangled.

And what do you call deletion of 80 pages of posts from a kibitzer who happened to hold a different opinion from most others including you?

Once I paste in Chinese, it does appear rather odd in the editing box, turning the hanzi (is that the word?) into &#____ type codes, but the final output is legible on my screen.

No swearing plz.