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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: 5, Touché) by srobert on Saturday August 10 2019, @05:49PM (11 children)
Slashdot still exists?
(Score: 4, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Saturday August 10 2019, @07:49PM (6 children)
I haven't looked at it in years... but I think it's still there, kind of like broadcast TV.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday August 10 2019, @10:17PM (4 children)
I skim the headlines on the crapper. Seems fitting.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @08:42AM (3 children)
It's worth reading the slashdot RSS to pick up on some good things they have in their news feed. Pipedot is my RSS of choice. What do you use?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @03:41PM
For me I personally skim hackernews. The feed is a bit more furious and usually not political.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 12 2019, @02:48PM
The browser on my phone. Not as lightweight in code or network transfer but significantly lighter weight in ounces.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by iWantToKeepAnon on Monday August 12 2019, @07:51PM
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." -- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @01:04AM
You are so superior to us commoners.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @02:39AM (3 children)
I go to slashdot to see what soylentnews will post in a few days (slashdot posts stories only a day or two after ars tecknica so it's close enough) - soylentnews wants $$$ for what they do so maybe I'll add $5 to this effort someday
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Sunday August 11 2019, @06:09AM (2 children)
We beat them to the "Epstein and tech" story by several days. Too bad they ran their Epstein story on the day he snuffed it, that was good timing.
You can find plenty of examples of stories that appeared here before Slashdot. But they will usually get to them faster because they post stories with as little as 30 minute spacing, whereas we target 100 minutes on weekdays, or 140 minutes on weekends (roughly).
Mystery solved, you can stop bringing it up every time like it's a gotcha.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 11 2019, @08:44AM (1 child)
I don't come here, or anywhere else really, for recent news. I come here for interesting news.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday August 12 2019, @02:51PM
I come here to discuss news. I can consume it anywhere but the people are the value of this site.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.