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Welcome, new trolls! We're pleased as punch to have you aboard, unfortunately as you may have noticed our moderators are unable to give you the moderations you've been working so hard for. Since we can't really do much about people not moderating more, we're going to be giving out more points so that the ones that do can give you the attention you so desperately crave.
Moderators: Starting a little after midnight UTC tonight, everyone will be getting ten points a day instead of five. The threshold for a mod-bomb, however, is going to remain at five. This change is not so you can pursue an agenda against registered users more effectively but so we can collectively handle the rather large uptick in anonymous trolling recently while still being able to have points remaining for upmodding quality comments. This is not an invitation to go wild downmodding; it's helping you to be able to stick to the "concentrate more on upmodding than downmodding" bit of the guidelines.
Also, this is not a heavily thought-out or permanent change. It is a quick, dirty adjustment that will be reviewed, tweaked, and likely changed before year's end. Questions? Comments?
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday August 28 2017, @02:46PM (3 children)
but because the computer I'm posting from is not my own, and I don't want the owner of that computer (who knows my real world identity) to know that I'm maxwell demon on Soylent News, let alone get my password.
If you're talking about your employer, how would they not know this? My understanding of HTTPS is that it's trivially easy to see all the encrypted traffic when you (the employer/institution) control the PC, the browser, and the gateways the traffic is going through. The only thing https is good for is preventing eavesdroppers elsewhere.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday August 28 2017, @07:31PM (2 children)
Because I don't log in as maxwell demon from that computer, even a complete surveillance of any click and keypress would only reveal that I'm posting as AC here (and what I'm posting from there), not that I'm also posting as maxwell demon from elsewhere.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Monday August 28 2017, @07:59PM (1 child)
Ok, but then why not just have two identities/accounts, one you use from work (assuming that's what you're talking about) and another you use from elsewhere?
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Monday August 28 2017, @08:34PM
While AC posts can only be traced while they are written, the full posting history of a logged-in account can be recovered after the fact, even if there has been no local surveillance at the time of posting.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.