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Things finally came to a head on slashdot last night, and now anonymous posts are banned. No more anonymous nazi ASCII art, no anonymous racism, and no APK. More in this journal entry [Ed's Comment: And lots of interesting comments too ...].
It's one way to combat anonymous hate speech and forum spam.
[Editor (JR) We've looked at the site but we cannot find an announcement that anonymous posts are actually banned; it might simply be a case that the software is not working correctly, although it would seem to be an unlikely cause. Does anyone in our community have any additional information to categorically prove or disprove that anonymous comments are disabled?
Furthermore, as there are many more comments in the journal entry than there are here, I would recommend making any new comments on BarbaraHudson's journal entry rather than splitting the discussion into two.]
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Saturday August 10 2019, @05:29PM (10 children)
This is the path of least resistance.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @05:48PM (9 children)
And nothing of value was lost. It used to be a great site years ago, but between the bullying, long ass posts that don't get collapsed and abusive moderation by militant libertarians, the site is barely worth noting. Interesting discussion is few and far between.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @06:02PM (2 children)
'Militant' Libertarians? They're about the least aggressive group out there. Just in the last week, there's one political group that's A) had a leading politician publicly dox his opponent's donors, B) held 24 hour protests outside their opponents' houses, and C) silenced and banned their enemies for reporting on their own death threats.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @11:40PM (1 child)
If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times, don't fuck with the Girl Scouts. They mean business.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday August 11 2019, @12:17AM
They get you with the cookies. After a few hits of Thin Mint, they own you for life. Fred Durst references girl scout cookies in his song "Nookie," which was a song about him being blackmailed by the girl scouts after they fed him cookies and then secretly recorded him sucking another man's dick while high on cookie intoxication.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @08:31PM (4 children)
Rather than militant libertarians, the site seems to have been flooded by militant authoritarians. The sheer number of people defending practices like mass surveillance, the TSA, the drug war, etc. was staggering.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @10:17PM
Most people sold out. It's hard to get a job in tech without forfeiting a lot of those early values that were shared online. They've been replaced with the new sjw values that businesses seem to embrace.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @08:37AM (1 child)
defending practices like mass surveillance
What is the alternative?
We have a bunch of black people running around looting houses, attacking people on the street, harming people. What do you do? Other than surveillance I meant.
So far they have been captured on CCTV but not clearly enough to identify them.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @09:02AM
Doing literally nothing is better than violating people's liberties en masse. Freedom is more important than safety.
(Score: 2) by epitaxial on Sunday August 11 2019, @09:00PM
Can you find me examples of this?
(Score: 2) by Nuke on Sunday August 11 2019, @12:13PM
I didn't mind the racist and Nazi posts, I can cope, but I did mind the fact that most of them were pages in length and then re-posted and re-posted. It was a struggle to find the on-topic posts. Preventing repeated posts would have done the trick (eg a script to check for >10% repeat). I also got tired of the flame battle that was going on among a small group centred on APK.