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and if you start implementing these sanity checks, they better be everywhere. Operators will start to rely on them and might become careless - they believe the

• Ensorceled 6y ago
  How could some sanity checks be worse than NO sanity checks at all? In the YouTube case, I mean. This is happening ALL the time.
  • hamandcheese 6y ago
    For the same reason human babysitters of autonomous vehicles don't succeed in preventing pedestrians from getting run over.
    • Ensorceled 6y ago
      Right, but a human babysitter is better than NO babysitter.
  • lmm 6y ago
    An inconsistently applied sanity check creates a false sense of security. Like how a safety barrier that isn't strong enough to take someone's weight might be worse than no barrier.
    • fiddlerwoaroof 6y ago
      Yeah, some people recommend something like alias rm=‘rm -i’ Unfortunately, as soon as you’re on another computer or at someone else’s shell, you’ll be more comfortable thinking less about rm-ing things and the sanity check won’t be there.
      • pwg 6y ago
        The better recommendation is to alias rm -i to del: alias del='rm -i' And then get in the habit of using 'del' unless you really want a no-confirmation delete. Then when you are on another computer or at someone else's shell you get: del: command not found Instead of having a bunch of files silently deleted.
        • fiddlerwoaroof 6y ago
          Another trick is to run touch —- -i In important directories. Then rm -rf * expands to rm -rf .... -i ... and you get the “are you sure” prompt.
        • thaumasiotes 6y ago
          This strategy will fail pretty badly if you're on someone else's computer using Windows or DOS, where 'del' is the delete command.
          • happymellon 6y ago
            Does `del -rf /` do a lot on Windows?
            • thaumasiotes 6y ago
              I doubt it, but `del *` should do the same thing on both systems.
              • pwg 6y ago
                Except that on windows, "del" defaults to prompting "are you sure" when one types "del *".
    • Ensorceled 6y ago
      Right, I understand the concept. What I'm saying is that a safety barrier that sometimes doesn't work is better than rails that always guide you off a cliff; which is currently the YouTube model.
  • dylan604 6y ago
    That's the same mentality of people stating because one form of pollution reduction or green energy generation isn't solving the problem that it's not worth attempting to do what you can when you can where you can. Those small moves are what gets the thing moving.
  • lopmotr 6y ago
    Many of the cases we hear about don't seem to be mistakes, including this one. Sometimes nobody can figure out any possible reason for a ban and sometimes it gets reinstated (that's the undo feature in action). But often there are obvious copyright issues or offensive material and the channel owner only goes clutching at fair use or freedom of speech after the ship has sailed.