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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: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @12:37AM (8 children)
I post AC because in the view of public opinion you are guilty until proven innocent. Even then what you say can and will be used against you. People are mimicking what they see in the news. They think it is just dandy to 'punish' those they perceive as doing them a wrong. One dude at a major corp recently got doxed because he brought up that exact point. I have seen it happen time after time for years. Some were surprised what happened to him. I wasn't. If he had dropped it AC he would still have a job and could still be making a difference there.
Sure I could just create some rando login and use that. But why? I like to tease one of the other AC's out there but he puts his name on it. May as well log in then... But to each his own.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Saturday August 26 2017, @12:55AM (7 children)
Yeah: you don't put your name on it, someone can post as you and just stick, like
__gewg__
or whatever on their post.
Be like identity theft.
Meeeeen!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @01:21AM (2 children)
If you don't replicate the originalowner badge perfectly you will be instantly outed as a fake.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday August 26 2017, @08:19AM (1 child)
Well, copy&paste is no rocket science.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 26 2017, @08:50PM
PGP, however, is hard.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 27 2017, @09:26AM (3 children)
How about this: each post gets a hash which poster can optionally use as temporary "in-thread identity", but doesn't need to be bound to it forever (next post has option to use newly generated hash). Anonymity is preserved, but also none can hijack a conversation.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday August 27 2017, @10:39AM (2 children)
Already has a comment id. Might as well go off of that and save some db space.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by FatPhil on Monday August 28 2017, @09:25AM (1 child)
Here's an idea, change the "post anonymously" check box to be a pull-down: "post identifiably (default) / post pseudonymously / post anonymously". Anyone posting pseudonymously will be titled "Pseudonymous Coward #${id}" within that story rather than "Anonymous Coward", where $id is just a counter that increases each time someone new selects pseudonymity in that story. Posts posted identifiably would remain as they are, unconnected to the pseudonymous posts from the same account. Pseudonymous id's in different stories would be completely unrelated to each other, each story just starts handing out ids from 1 when it goes live (or it could be an ever-increasing counter, but that could get ugly over time). This of course forces all your pseudonymous posts in a story to become associated with each other.
This pseudonymity would of course only be a feature offered to logged in members, thus encouraging people to actually have accounts, even if they want "anonymity". (The number of people who who post anon, but log in to moderate is many, so this doesn't change things much, if anything, it might enourage those to stop being quite so anonymous.)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 28 2017, @10:35AM
Oh, yeah, I've already floated that idea around #dev more than once. It's slightly more tricky than it sounds though. IPID would necessarily be a component of any stored hash and we purge that info when a story goes into Archive Mode. Which is to say, after two weeks. And we do want quite a lot to make any government agency's job difficult for them if they come to us with a court order, because we can't afford the lawyers to fight one.
Or we could use a cookie, which many of our ACs aren't going to be especially fond of.
I do like the three-option posting idea though.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.