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posted by janrinok on Saturday August 10 2019, @05:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-love-the-smell-of-burning-trolls-in-the-morning dept.

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.]


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @05:55PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @05:55PM (#878363)

    And yet the Unicode support and long posts taking up all the space haven't been fixed.

  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday August 10 2019, @06:53PM (2 children)

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 10 2019, @06:53PM (#878397) Journal

    I assume you are referring to /.'s Unicode support or lack of it etc?

    I am not aware of any problems with our Unicode support - in fact the team put a lot of effort into making sure we could work with it.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @08:01PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 10 2019, @08:01PM (#878427)

      Yes, as far as I know there have never been any problems with unicode here.

      • (Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday August 10 2019, @10:07PM

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Saturday August 10 2019, @10:07PM (#878490) Homepage Journal

        Yeah, it was the first non-trivial thing I did after coming on staff, so somewhere between six months and a year in. We're still not entirely 100% (a few very minor bugs left) but we're close enough to mock the hell out of slashdot.

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