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janrinok
on Saturday February 03 2018, @05:40AM
from the you-don't-own-anything-anymore dept.
from the you-don't-own-anything-anymore dept.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8JCh0owT4w
When it comes to repair, farmers have always been self reliant. But the modernization of tractors and other farm equipment over the past few decades has left most farmers in the dust thanks to diagnostic software that large manufacturers hold a monopoly over.
Farmers using Eastern European cracking software for their tractors, and MS, Apple, etc. want to stop them.
Related: Right to Repair
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Tractor Hacking: The Farmers Breaking Big Tech's Repair Monopoly
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday February 03 2018, @11:32AM (7 children)
I don't believe current logic allows for a post's karma value to be treated as anything outside the range of -1 to +5. I'll look into it after tonight's update but it'll take a significant amount of hunting down, fixing, and debugging to make sure we don't bugger things up changing that logic.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @01:48PM (4 children)
Some people like to fart in public. Is that such a big thing? This place is pretty clean the way it is. Let's not ruin it just because some special snowflake takes offense every time they see "penis" and "pussy". If people can moderate posts that result in deletions, that system will definitely be abused. Besides, some of those "spam" posts are pretty funny, if even they aren't original. Like our dear friend realDonaldTrump, a fart's a fart. They still make me laugh. And I don't consider them spam at all. Advertisers, the kind that occasionally leak into the journal section, those guys are spam.
I still insist that the moderation system here and in the green site are probably the best in the business (much better here for its generosity in points given). Especially for sites that are this open with real anonymous posting. Please, don't rock the boat. Just teach people the magic of the "PgDn" key and the scroll bar.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday February 03 2018, @05:04PM (2 children)
All I'm currently thinking about is allowing people to assign a per-user adjustment to Spam moderated comments that'll take them below -1 and collapse them even if they're browsing at -1. Some of the recent Spam has been overly verbose and I'd rather spend a week coding and debugging than the time it takes to click the "-" button on that post. I'm weird like that.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @06:08PM (1 child)
Don't we allow -6 to +6 to be applied to mod reasons including spam? That's the point (the custom prefs for anons, new users, mod reasons, comment length, etc.) at which it would be good to blow the -1 and +5 caps. Before customizations, keep -1 to +5 range as usual.
But we could have comments with -34 or +69 karma with that change which would necessitate a new negative infinity option for displaying all comments.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday February 03 2018, @10:06PM
That's the idea, yep. Only for Spam at this point though. Someone annoying us by being right when we're wrong or vice versa doesn't warrant the ability to hide their posts when you're browsing at the floor IMO. On the other hand, it'd probably be easier to just set anything with a Spam moderation it to collapsed after the normal collapsed/expanded checks have been done for that comment.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Sunday February 04 2018, @08:43AM
Good point... maybe having it so we can nail anything moderated as spam and be done with it... and fix it so if so desired, by setting the spam mod modifier to -1 in our message preferences, it would drop a spam so low that anyone surfing at -1 would see all -1 but spam, which due to the additional -1 assigned in the preferences, drops it to -2, below the threshold.
I would still like to see some way of further moderating anything other than spam to spam, so that any of us that have the karma, and willing to back our decision up with our karma, can fix it so everyone else can set their machines to not display it.
Either that, or have another level down, the sewer level, that only spam mods can go.
Its just a time waster of crap for me... kinda like a TV ad I have absolutely no interest in. I would not want to be caught at work with SN on my screen, with what shows up here showing up there.
In other words, this is a tech site, we oughta be safe for work.
I could name you many sites that have lots and lots of porn... with pictures! But not here.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 5, Interesting) by isj on Saturday February 03 2018, @03:53PM (1 child)
Another thing that would help is to not allow AC to make the first post. That would make it harder for AC trolls to get noticed and also reduce the problem with "first" posts.
The downside is that if an AC had a valuable insight then he would have to wait until someone non-AC had made the first post, but I think that would be acceptable - if the insight is valuable it will get modded up and noticed by a larger audience.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 03 2018, @09:36PM
I think that's unnecessarily restrictive, for a very small problem. There are very few articles with a spammy first post.